Patti Smith Quotes
It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.
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You can't be hesitant about who you are.
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It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
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It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
