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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
Carly Simon
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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
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The Bronx
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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I haven't got time for the pain.
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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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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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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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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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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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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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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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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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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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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