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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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Stammer
Properly
Couldn
Terrible
Speak

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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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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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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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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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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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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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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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 had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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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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