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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.

Carly Simon

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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Pianist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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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 scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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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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I haven't got time for the pain.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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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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So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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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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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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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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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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