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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Human Rights Activist
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
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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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New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.
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Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.
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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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Grief isn't all tears.
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I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
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I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.
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It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
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We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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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 still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.
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Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.
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When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.
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