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Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

Patti Smith

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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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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.
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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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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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Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
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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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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
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We never had any children, he said ruefully. Our work was our children.
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
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I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.
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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
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Paths that cross will cross again
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I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.
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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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After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.
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I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.
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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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