Patti Smith Quotes
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
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The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.
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Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.
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What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
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Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.
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In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
