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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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 know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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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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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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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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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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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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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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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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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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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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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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