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Patti Smith Quotes

I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Believe Kings Play Rock Roll

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

World You Seeing Feeling Actor Film

Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.

Robert J. Shiller

Stars Fate Lost Intellectual Yes

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

Education Job New York City Survive

One of the key things I did to stay on my diet is I never allowed myself to get hungry. As soon as I got hungry, I'd eat healthy foods.

Myself Key Diet Healthy Never Eat

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

Honesty Eyes Together Writing World

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

You Back Everything Share Take Them

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

Martin Niemoller

God Man Obey Must Rather Than

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

Strength Courage Best I Am People

I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and I'm a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.

Luke Pasqualino

Love Cooking Enjoy Nice Pasta Meat

When you share something about your adolescence, it's a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to talking about your past and the person that you once were.

Past Talking You Person Way Over

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

Christian Marclay

You Way Out Used Get Sounds

I'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative.

Political Dream Policy Being

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