Patti Smith Quotes
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as a nickname. Before I even did dancing properly or anything, like, substantially creative, I was still Twigs.
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I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I think Mitt Romney is a good man.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
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Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.
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I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.
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There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
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I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.
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An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
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It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
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Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
