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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

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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
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
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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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Grief isn't all tears.
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My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
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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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When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.
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I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
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I'm not really a nostalgic person.
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
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I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.
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I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.
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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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