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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.

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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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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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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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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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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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So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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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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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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 had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be.
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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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