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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

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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
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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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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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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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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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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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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