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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
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It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
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I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, Where's my car?
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Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
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Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.
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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
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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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I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.
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More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
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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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My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
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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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I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.
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We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
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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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