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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: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.
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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.
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We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.
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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
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I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.
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Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?
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It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.
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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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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
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Paths that cross will cross again
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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: Away in the Manger, William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.
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The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.
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Love is an angel disguised as lust.
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I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.
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