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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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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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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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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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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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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.
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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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 usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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