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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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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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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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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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All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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 had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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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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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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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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