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I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
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I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
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