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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

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
Lost
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Way
People
Worrying
Ears
Worry

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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've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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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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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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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 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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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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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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