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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

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
Sound
Mind
Stops
Birds
Noise
Bird

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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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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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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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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'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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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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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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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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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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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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I haven't got time for the pain.
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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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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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