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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
Carly Simon
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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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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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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
Carly Simon
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
I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
Carly Simon
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.
Carly Simon
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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
Carly Simon
There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
Carly Simon
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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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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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
Carly Simon
I took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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.
Carly Simon
You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.
Carly Simon
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.
Carly Simon
You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.
Carly Simon
I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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