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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
Carly Simon
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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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Rocks
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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 usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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 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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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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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 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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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'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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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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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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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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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