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Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Visual Artist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
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I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.
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I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.
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To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
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Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.
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If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
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I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.
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We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.
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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
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Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.
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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.
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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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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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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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