"Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we donâ€™t know, and so much that we know we donâ€™t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight."

Source : Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.25, Anchor

Anna Deavere Smith

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“I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past.”

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“Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.”
“Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.”
“I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.”

Source : "Amy Pascal: An untypical leading lady who's taken Sony to the top". Interview with Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2006.
“What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is donâ€™t mean nothinâ€™.Â We family, carinâ€™ for each other.Â Family make us strong in times of trouble.Â We all stick together, help each other out.Â That the real meaninâ€™ of family.Â When you grow up, you take that family feelinâ€™ with you.”

Source : Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.160, Simon and Schuster
“For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.”
“The platform is either an enabler of creativity or it's a block.”
“When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.”

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