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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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Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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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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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
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People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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I was like one of the boys in school who flap their legs frantically under the desk. I always had this weird feeling between my legs and I had no idea what it was. I didn't know girls masturbated. I never touched myself or anything.
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I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
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Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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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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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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I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
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The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.
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Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.
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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
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I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.
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I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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