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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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Patricia Lee Smith
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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.
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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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