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Very Quotes by Anna Deavere Smith
- Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are…
- I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to
- Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound…
- A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
- We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
- I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have…
- I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity,…
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong