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PS
Patti Smith Musician
Creative

“I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably the other has to say something like, "Well I'm thinking he was shot in the neck with a certain gun and he seemed to be running." The solver has to picture what he's seeing first, and then express his own observations. The writer does the same.”

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PS
Patti Smith Musician
Confident

“I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.”

PS
Patti Smith Musician
Inspired

“I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.”

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PS
Patti Smith Musician
Angry

“People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.”

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PS
Patti Smith Musician
Hopeful

“I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.”

PD
Patti Davis Author, Actress
Love

“People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.”

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PD
Patti Davis Author, Actress
Philosophical

“I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.”

PD
Patti Davis Author, Actress
Melancholic

“I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling.”

PS
Patti Smith Musician
Angry

“I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.”

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PS
Patti Smith Musician
Angry

“I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.”

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PS
Patti Smith Musician
Angry

“I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.”

PS
Patti Smith Musician
Angry

“As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.”

PS
Patti Smith Musician
Angry

“I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.”

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PD
Patti Davis Author, Actress
Spiritual

“I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.”

PD
Patti Davis Author, Actress
Grieving

“The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.”

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PG
Paul G Rapper, Producer
Funny

“The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.”

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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
Philosophical

“With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.”

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