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Patti Smith Quotes

I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pretty boring 'Behind the Music.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Music Lifestyle Boring Pretty

We've all, you know, done things that we think at the time were bad, but actually, in hindsight, you look back and go, 'I'm really grateful that happened because I'm a stronger person.'

Time Grateful Think Stronger Look

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.

Time Money Fun You Out Hang

The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

Great Now Say Way Line Spin

The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.

Children Relax Way Only Could

There have been some good British gay films.

Good Gay British Been Some Films

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

I Am Chaos Out Order Still Making

I was born in Paris. I grew up here, and I still live here, and I will forever, I think.

Live Think Born Paris Will Up

I never in my life saw myself as a game show host. I don't want to be a traffic cop.

Life Myself Game My Life Want Never

The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.

Queen Fake Portrait Artist Table

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

Good I Am Yellow Brain Legal Hand

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Time Think Envy Sin Commit Christ

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

Spiritual World You Spirit Side Hit

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