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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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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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