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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.

Adam Beach

I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was.
ADAM BEACH

Character Emotion Express Feeling Good Ninja People Personally View
I’m not gonna fall. I’m tired of falling. I’m tired of seeing our people fall. I don’t believe in failure.
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Believe Children Fail Fall Falling People Seeing Tired
He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn’t come out of the water alive.
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Alive Coem Depression Drinking Medication Out Water
We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully
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Country Human Being Native Natural Respect Spiritual Warrior World
I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that’s what you see.
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Carry Human Being Pipe Pray Song Traditional Trying Two
Acting for me was an escape and it wasn’t until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow.
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Acting Escape Job Made Real Realize Sadness Smoke
We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them.
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Care Exist God Heal Learn Taken Traumas
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations,
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Energy Especially Faced Military Occupation Oppressive Structural
Well to me growing, up I’ve had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned.
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Dying Growing Hurt Mother Parent Psychological Up
With this film, it’s nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.
ADAM BEACH

Civil Film Male Presented See Trauma War White
I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression.
ADAM BEACH

Character Expression First Freedom Running Started Team Thinking
I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
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Complicated Conflict Interested Learning Little Tendency Worked
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.
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Character Children Generation Historical Nice Traumas
Ever since I started acting, I’ve always spoken to our people about identity. I’ve spoken to kids, telling them: “Where do I get my strength to push through the barriers to get me where I’m at today? It’s my culture and my traditions, you know?
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Acting Always Identity Kid People Spoken Started
After that movie I said, “Y’know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That’s gotta be as real as it gets. It’s not just dialogue anymore.”
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Anymore Dialogue Emotion Job Movie Realistically Wear
Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I’d dealt with my parents’ death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger.
ADAM BEACH

Anger Deal Felt Grow Mirrored Movie Parent Sadness Signal Smoke

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