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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Human Rights Activist
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Patricia Lee Smith
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The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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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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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
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People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.
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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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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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Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
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I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.
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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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I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
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I realize that people need something to believe in.
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