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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

Carly Simon

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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
Came
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Singer
Hats
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Eventually
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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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 don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.
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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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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 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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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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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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 had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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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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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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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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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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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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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