Patti Smith Quotes
Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.
Quotes to Explore
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.
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Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.
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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
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Clinton's a schmuck.
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No one is born hating others.
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When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
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My tastes are Viennese.
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People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.
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I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
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The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.
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I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.
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Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.
