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An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself. | dG1falp0LUpHV1NheW8
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00:00Life is an adventure of our own design, intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
00:16I didn't mind to become an artist, poet, and through that pursuit I found the root of my voice.
00:24You guys have been making this movie for ten years?
00:26Yeah. My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs.
00:33Jeez, that's so embarrassing.
00:35How does it feel to be a rock icon?
00:37When they say that, I always think of like Mount Rushmore.
00:42Come, my one, look at your world, don't let it bring you down.
00:50Once, even Bob Dylan tuned his guitar. He said, hey, nice guitar.
00:57As you can see, I was not a mother that used bleach. I'm on strike.
01:02I'm just going to live here in this little corner until the film's done.
01:06You want your medley, Gloria Land.
01:08You want the medley?
01:09Only for you, Mom, would I do a medley.
01:27Okay, you'll have to stop filming now.

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