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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.

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
Vain
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Think
Thinking

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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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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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've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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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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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 haven't got time for the pain.
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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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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