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Patti Smith
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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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Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.
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I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.
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I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.
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I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
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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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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
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Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
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After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.
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I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.
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I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.
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I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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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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I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.
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If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.
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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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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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