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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
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Human Rights Activist
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
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I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.
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My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.
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One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
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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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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
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Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
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Your soul was like a network of spittle.
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I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
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I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
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I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life] it gives the film a certain elegance.
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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 got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
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