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We never had any children, he said ruefully. Our work was our children.
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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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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.
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My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.
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People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
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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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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.
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Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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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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The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.
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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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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.
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