For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas. - Anna Deavere Smith - Quotesmemo.com

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Anna Deavere Smith

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

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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.

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

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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

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