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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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Christianity
Heaven
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
Patti Smith
Writer
I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
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Encouragement
I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
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State
I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
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Thought
I like gettin' old.
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Old
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
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Life
Daughter
Old
Play
Years
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
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Mother
Financial
Childhood
Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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Americans
Being
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
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God
Help
Man
Santa claus
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
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Artist
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
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Being
Gender
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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Artists
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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Artist
Artists
May
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
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God
Artist
Competition