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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
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Peggy
Collins
Judy
Ross
Annie
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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 had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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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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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'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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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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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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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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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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 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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