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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 78
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've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.
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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'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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As a child I was such an intense daydreamer I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.
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I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.
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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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I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.
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I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.
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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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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
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I'm not really a nostalgic person.
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I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.
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