I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you … - Anna Deavere Smith

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It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means we have to start making dishonest work, which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature.

Anna Deavere Smith

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to

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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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The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.

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On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

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