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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
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
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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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I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.
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Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
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I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
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Punk rock is just another word for freedom.
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Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.
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I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.
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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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I wanted to remember the original energy strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.
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Grief isn't all tears.
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When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.
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The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.
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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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