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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
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Singer-Songwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.
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I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.
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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
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I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.
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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
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Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one schlepping the equipment or doing the sound.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.
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It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
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If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.
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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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I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.
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