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I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.
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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.
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The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too.
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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.
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One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
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New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.
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You don't want to OD on improvisation.
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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
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Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.
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My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.
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The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
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I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
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