You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something … - Anna Deavere Smith

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If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

Anna Deavere Smith

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

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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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