Patti Smith Quotes
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.
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About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
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Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.
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I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.
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When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
