Patti Smith Quotes

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

Patti Smith

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One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Andre Kostelanetz

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That's the biggest thing I struggle with. We could never hope to represent every gay person in America. There will be people who will say, 'Well, my experience of being gay isn't like that,' to which I can only say, 'That's fine.'

Andrew Haigh

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Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Meryl Streep

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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

Stephen Fry

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I'm not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I'm so happy that I'm not. I've seen those ladies - the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem.

Miranda Hart

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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Louis D. Brandeis

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My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.

Christopher Meloni

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That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

Christopher Darden

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We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing.

Bre Pettis

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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

Brunello Cucinelli

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