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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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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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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 haven't got time for the pain.
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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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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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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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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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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 had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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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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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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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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One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.
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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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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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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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