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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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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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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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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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 took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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I haven't got time for the pain.
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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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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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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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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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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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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