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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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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
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Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.
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I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
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I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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 know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
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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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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
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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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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.
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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
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By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary, because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.
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I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.
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