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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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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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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It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
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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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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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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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Bernie Mac is relentless. That's one thing I like about him. He's not PC. He doesn't care what you think. He's going out there to please that audience.
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Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly and die without explanation or cause - would simply vanish without a trace.
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When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.
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I love 'Breaking Bad,' and the fact that my friend Aaron Paul is in it makes it all the more special to watch.
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Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
