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If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
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It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
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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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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.
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We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.
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We never had any children, he said ruefully. Our work was our children.
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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth I liked flannel and not polyester.
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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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Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
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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 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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I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
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Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.
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I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.
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What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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