Anna Deavere Smith Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Thinking, Order, Creative

• I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Political, Haute Couture, Language

  "My LA: Theater, Film And Television Actress Anna Deavere Smith". Interview with Heather Wood Rudulph, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2011.

• 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.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Character, People, Decision

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