Carly Simon Quotes
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
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And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
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Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.
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Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.
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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
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Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.
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I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.
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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
