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I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

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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
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.
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Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.
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All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
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I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.
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I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
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Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
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I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
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Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.
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We never had any children, he said ruefully. Our work was our children.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.
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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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I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.
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If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, Don't film me anymore, [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them he just respected their wishes.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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