Poverty makes it very
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning. Anna Deavere Smith
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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning. Anna Deavere Smith
A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented. Anna Deavere Smith
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends. Anna Deavere Smith
If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I’m listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won’t get anything unless I get those things out of the way. Anna Deavere Smith
You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we’re all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise. Anna Deavere Smith
I don’t talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way. Anna Deavere Smith
Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly. Anna Deavere Smith
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can’t be attacked. Anna Deavere Smith
You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy. Anna Deavere Smith
Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right. Anna Deavere Smith