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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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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
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Terrible
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Stammer

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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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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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'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 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 try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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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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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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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 took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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