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Carly Simon
American
Musician
Born:
Jun 25
,
1945
Because
Had
Me
Never
Think
You
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I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.
Carly Simon
Show Off
Scar
Proudly
Off
Just
Afraid
Want
Show
We need role models who are going to break the mold.
Carly Simon
Role
Role Models
Models
Going
Break
Mold
Who
Need
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.
Carly Simon
You
Old
Something
Through
Take
Part
Feel
New
Like
Know
Underneath
Coming
Been
Discover
Off
Canvas
Paint
Painted
My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
Carly Simon
Beautiful
Scar
Like
Looks
Arrow
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
Carly Simon
Mother
Father
Everything
Classical
About
Pianist
Singer
Just
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
Carly Simon
Speak
Properly
Had
Until
Terrible
Stammer
Really
No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
Carly Simon
Style
Changed
Never
Because
Much
Really
There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
Carly Simon
Try
Dress
Pictures
Like
Look
French
Singer
Used
Her
Hardy
Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.
Carly Simon
Thought
Too
Everyone
Tried
Record
Record Deal
Eclectic
Well
Deal
Get
Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.
Carly Simon
Sometimes
Year
France
Write
Songs
Lived
Started
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.
Carly Simon
Music
Sometimes
Other
Local
Lyrics
Melody
Would
Poem
Write
Take
Put
Boyfriend
Times
Scratch
Start
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
Carly Simon
Big
Jazz
Musical
Musical Theater
See
Were
Very
American
Theater
Shows
But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.
Carly Simon
Brothers
Listened
Bill
Radio
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.
Carly Simon
Matter
Black
Face
First
Way
More
Scene
Part
Singer
Acceptable
Because
Came
Than
Much
Now
Actress
I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
Carly Simon
Had
Mastectomy
Then
I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.
Carly Simon
Truth
Time
You
Strong
Every
Think
Dig
Every Time
Bit
Someplace
Seems
Emotional
Emotional Truth
Like
Always
Revelation
Go
Interesting
Little
Little Bit
Connection
Deeper
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.
Carly Simon
War
Time
Business
Long
Before
Living
Out
City
Reconstruction
Town
Like
Sort
Been
Malls
Being
After
Then
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