Patti Smith Quotes
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
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As weird as it is it to see yourself on screen, it made everything we've been through seem very real. And, well, London is only weeks away now.
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You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
