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The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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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What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
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People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.
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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
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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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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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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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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
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Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.
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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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I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life] it gives the film a certain elegance.
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I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.
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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
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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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Your soul was like a network of spittle.
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I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.
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When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: Away in the Manger, William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.
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The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
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I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.
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