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Patti Smith Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Day Think Every Day Craft Just Kids

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

Politics Think New Take Interest

I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

Matthew Heineman

Government Law Hands Own Fail Take

I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.

Future Business Think You Say Will

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

Day Happy Writing Bad Bed Jump

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Football College Me Chance Play

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

Love Power Finding Price Exploring

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

Diane von Furstenberg

Women Yourself End You I Can Say

That's one thing people don't know about me - I eat in my sleep. I can't keep things in the house; I literally have in my refrigerator water, coconut water, orange juice, hemp milk and like, tea bags. And that's really it. Because I eat in my sleep.

Water Sleep Tea People Me House

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

I Am Self Done Teachers Everything

I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.

Power Teacher Me Think Said Will

I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.

Home Time Money Wait End Someone

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.

Mother Myself Storm Crazy Writing

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