Carly Simon Quotes
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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'm a little old-fashioned - I like it when the man opens the door and I like it when a man pays for me. I particularly like it when they pay for dinner or whatever, because I've pretty much done the opposite, but for the exception of James [Taylor], where we split everything down the middle. I've been the larger money earner in practically all of my relationships. There's equality and there are positive differences, which are complimentary.
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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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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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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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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.
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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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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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He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
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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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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 remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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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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We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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 always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
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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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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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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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I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.
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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 sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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