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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Photographer
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Singer-Songwriter
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.
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I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
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I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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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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