#the

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. ↗

— Patti Smith

#another #any #anybody #because #childhood

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change. ↗

— Patti Smith

#across #afghan #agendas #america #board

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#go #him #honestly #i #less

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#elderly #fools #good #i #i am

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#chequered #got #humour #i #i think

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#been #differently #dinner #down #eating

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places? ↗

— Maggie Smith

#cancer #chemotherapy #else #everybody #everybody else

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#dearest #even #nearest #often #people

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#love #love you #other #person #real

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes. ↗

— Margaret Smith

#get #i #last #longer #make