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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
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That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
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One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.
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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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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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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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For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.
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Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.
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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
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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 have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.
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I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
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Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.
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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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