Patti Smith Quotes
I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.
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I am proud to be the granddaughter and daughter of immigrants who were brave enough to leave their homes and come to a whole new world with a different language and culture and immerse themselves fearlessly to start a better life for themselves and their families.
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It's all in your head: you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
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Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.
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I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
