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I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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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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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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
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I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.
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If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.
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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
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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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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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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 thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
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We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.
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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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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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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
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The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
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