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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.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Patricia Lee Smith
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More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
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I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.
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[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.
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Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
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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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