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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
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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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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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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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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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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
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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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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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 took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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