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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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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.
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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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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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I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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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 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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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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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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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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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