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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

Patti Smith

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Visual Artist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
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As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
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I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.
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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
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If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
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I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.
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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
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Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.
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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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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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My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
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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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