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Patti Smith Quotes

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 30, 1946

Topics

Child Parents Ready Three Get Four

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

Tea Effort People Think Television

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

Myself Project Complacent Panic Get

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

Me Luck Enough Play Want Actor

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

Good Character Walk Writing Song

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

Character Eyes Time Hate Him Same

I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.

Parents Choices Behavior You Become

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.

People Me World Behavior Help Human

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

History You Look Emotions Monarchy

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

Control Story You Way More Over

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

People Think Name You Bad Big

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

Best People Web Straight Poems Put

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

Spanish Mistaken Often Latin Descent

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