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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.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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 think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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We never had any children, he said ruefully. Our work was our children.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.
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I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.
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One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
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The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.
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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.
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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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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 was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
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I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
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I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
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Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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