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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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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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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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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'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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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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'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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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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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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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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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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I haven't got time for the pain.
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