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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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 love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.
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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally it's great to look at - it's a package deal.
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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
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Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.
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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
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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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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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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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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.
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Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.
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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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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
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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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I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.
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I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
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