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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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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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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 try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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.
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It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
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