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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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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'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
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If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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 knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
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My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
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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 know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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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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I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.
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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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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.
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I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
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