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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
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
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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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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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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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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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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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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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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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