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If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.

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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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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
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As a child I was such an intense daydreamer I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.
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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 can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for Mercy Is ... we all got in one mind because the song is delicate it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso.
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
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I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.
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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
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I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
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