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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

Carly Simon

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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
Became
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Went
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Peggy
Collins
Judy
Ross
Annie

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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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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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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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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 try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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'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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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 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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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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