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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Carly Simon
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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
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I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
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Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy sharing it is liberating.
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You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.
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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.
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It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
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You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.
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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.
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