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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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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
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Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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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 haven't got time for the pain.
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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 took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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