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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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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More quotes by Carly Simon
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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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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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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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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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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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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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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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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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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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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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Carly Simon
Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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