Quotes of Anna Deavere Smith

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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

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“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

“ Without term limits, some remain in office for decades; as a result, their power increases and they feel entitled, and ignore the people they represent; but do not be fooled that term limits would ultimately change representation, for it’s the ignorance of the populace who continue returning the same people to office. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society! ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ True Love is not something that will ever happen in an instant....because the summary of our lives is not in an instant. Love at First sight is just infatuation. True Love.....is like a fine wine. It has layers upon layers of depth and flavor, all of which gets better if it is aged and cared for correctly. True Love is the gradual deep understanding of your Spouse, and a spiritual empathy towards them. As they get older, and change, you eagerly continue to turn pages of your lives together, studying and empathizing with a person that you do not need to be defensive or suspicious of. ”

- sangeeta mann

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ I miss everything about you Can’t believe that I still want you And after all the things we’ve been through. ”

- Colbie Caillat

“ I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo