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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.
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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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I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.
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I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.
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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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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth I liked flannel and not polyester.
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
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I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.
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I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
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Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.
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I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
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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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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
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Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.
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