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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I don't just love riding; I love horses. I was in the field at my yard watching them gallop around and play the other day. That's what keeps me going, and sometimes it has to be something more than just winning.
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Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.
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The cock does not crow till it has thrice flapped its wings; the parrot in moving among boughs never puts its feet excepting where it has first put its beak. Vows are not made till Hope is dead.
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There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
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I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is the time to establish our extraterrestrial base in freedom; later it may be under the coercion of necessity.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
