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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
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
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I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.
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I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
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Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
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Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.
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That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
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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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I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.
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I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
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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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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.
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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'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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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.
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