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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'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.
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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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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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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 think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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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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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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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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