Carly Simon Quotes

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• You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
• I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
• I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.
• Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.
• 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.
• 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…
• As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
• The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
• There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
• We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
• I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
• 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…
• I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
• 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.
• 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…
• You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
• My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
• Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.
• 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…
• Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

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