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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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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.
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Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.
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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
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I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
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For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.
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I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
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The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
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