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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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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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 don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
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What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WILL stop.
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I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
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It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.
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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
