Patti Smith Quotes
My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
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I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.
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That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
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I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
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From a young age, I was viciously competitive.
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My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
