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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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Rocks
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Singers

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I haven't got time for the pain.
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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 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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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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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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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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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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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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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 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 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 had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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