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I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
Carly Simon
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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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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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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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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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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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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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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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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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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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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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 had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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