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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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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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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be.
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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 think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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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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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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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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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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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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