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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
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I wanted to remember the original energy strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.
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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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My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.
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For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.
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Your soul was like a network of spittle.
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People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
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Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.
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Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one schlepping the equipment or doing the sound.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
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I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.
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Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.
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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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I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.
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I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.
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