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Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.
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Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one schlepping the equipment or doing the sound.
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.
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We never had any children, he said ruefully. Our work was our children.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.
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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
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I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life] it gives the film a certain elegance.
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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
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Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.
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The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
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I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.
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I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.
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What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
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I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.
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