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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.
Carly Simon
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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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 scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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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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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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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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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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