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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.
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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.
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If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.
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People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
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I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, Where's my car?
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
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I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
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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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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
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