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I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

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
Perfect
Anymore
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Nobody
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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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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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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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 sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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I haven't got time for the pain.
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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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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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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