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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Human Rights Activist
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Patricia Lee Smith
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.
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Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
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I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening.
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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 felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
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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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I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
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For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.
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I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.
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We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
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As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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