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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

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
Chemo
Mastectomy

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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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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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 try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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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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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'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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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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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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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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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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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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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