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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on. It was a trauma.
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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.
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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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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 wanted to remember the original energy strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.
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When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.
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If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.
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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
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Your soul was like a network of spittle.
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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
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I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.
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Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one schlepping the equipment or doing the sound.
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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.
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I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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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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I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
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