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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.

Carly Simon

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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
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The Bronx
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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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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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All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.
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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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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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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 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've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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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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