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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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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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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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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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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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
Carly Simon
There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.
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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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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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 had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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.
Carly Simon
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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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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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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