Patti Smith Quotes
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I am a big music nerd.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform, the Armed Services Committee, manufacturing, and women's health care.
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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I like to prepare each tour in a different way.
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.
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I never wanted fame.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
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Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
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Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.
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I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live From Daryl's House, we really get inside their music which gives me an even broader idea of the writing process. I think I'm always learning from everything in life. There are really songs everywhere.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
