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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

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
Mind
Apart
Broken
Room
Rooms
Fall
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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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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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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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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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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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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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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