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Patti Smith Quotes

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Book My Own Own Shelf Could

A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.

Child Never Film Get Like Married

I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition.

Jessica Springsteen

Love Freedom Discipline Competition

I believe Gary Cole is one of the greats.

Believe I Believe Gary Greats

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

Child Loss Greatest Nightmare

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Sitting Actor Moody Singer Being

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

People Me Song Feel Go Kind

Certain shows, when it's all comedy, it's like when you eat something that's too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need that salted caramel.

Jonathan Krisel

Sweet Comedy You Need Eat Something

I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'

Work Hope Challenge Together Ideas

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus more visceral forms.

Key Literature More Come Writer

Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Relationship Art Think Someone Kind

But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?

Myself Moving Think Feeling Want

We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.

Effort Believe Problem Intention

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