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I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Human Rights Activist
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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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My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.
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I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
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My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
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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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I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
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You don't want to OD on improvisation.
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If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
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To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
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I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
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The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.
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To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
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I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.
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When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.
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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 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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