"If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way."

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Anna Deavere Smith

#Listening Quotes #Hearing Quotes #Interviews Quotes

“In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.”
“It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.”
“A man must be willing to die for...”
“Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll; The temple of the Power whom all obey, That is the mark we tend to, for the soul Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.”

Source : James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322
“If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.”
“I love you too much to say goodbye.”
“I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things apart is really important and really interesting, but it's the direct opposite of creating something, which has to do with taking things and putting them together and hoping to make something unique that's more than the sum of its parts. And you can't do that with analysis, you can only take things into smaller and smaller pieces.”
“I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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