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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'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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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 took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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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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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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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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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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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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'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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