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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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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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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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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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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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 don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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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 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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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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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 a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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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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