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Patti Smith

"Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about."

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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."

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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."

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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."

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"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."

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"I've always been crazy for the American songbook."

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