Patti Smith Quotes
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
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The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,And drinks, and gapes for drink again;The plants suck in the earth, and areWith constant drinking fresh and fair.
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.
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Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.
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I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.
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I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.
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Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.
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Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
