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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Photographer
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
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I'm not really a nostalgic person.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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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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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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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
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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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Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
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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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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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I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.
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I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
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When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.
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I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.
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I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for Mercy Is ... we all got in one mind because the song is delicate it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso.
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My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
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Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
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