Quotes of Anna Deavere Smith

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I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch.

- Anna Deavere Smith

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“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. ”

- Jack Thorne

“ Let me take you from Miss to Mrs ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualitieshis rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi