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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
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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Anymore
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Nobody
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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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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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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 some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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 think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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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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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