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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

Topics: Anything Because Certainly Come Day Empty Everyone Exhausted Get Hearing Interviews Judgments Know Listening My Own Myself Out Own Prejudices Process Requires Things Those Three Unless Up Way While I Can

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In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Frequently Life My Own Own White

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There's not a lot of flash about me.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: About Flash Lot Me

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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: About Acting Disappear Job Supposed Think You

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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Acting Lot Techniques Very

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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Been Movie Never Show Television Television Show Violent

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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: About Acting Acting School Because Been Came Debates Ever Lot Many Our Out Race School See Since Taboo Talk Talking True Want Way Will Willing Work I Came

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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: About Afraid Because Day Emotionally Every Every Day Inadequate Loaded Many More More And More Our People Race Seems Talk Vocabulary

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 18th, 1950

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