Quotes of Anna Deavere Smith - somelinesforyou

“ Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner value with things in the world around you. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair... pick another profession. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair... pick another profession. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair... pick another profession. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot — that's what I love most. That's where character lives. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot — that's what I love most. That's where character lives. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot — that's what I love most. That's where character lives. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot — that's what I love most. That's where character lives. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith

“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”

- Anna Deavere Smith
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