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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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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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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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People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
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I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.
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