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I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.
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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
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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 wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
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Words are just rules and regulations to me.
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I always wear the same thing onstage.
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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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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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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
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Grief isn't all tears.
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I realize that people need something to believe in.
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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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Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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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 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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