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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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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Money definitely does not equal success in recording.
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I'm always "shopping," because I think it's important to know what's out there.
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The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
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And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.
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You just have to know your story from the beginning. You have to know what you're going for and be honest with people about that. Don't sit there and say you're gonna be a DIY punk band for your whole life and then move on to arenas; you can't do that because then people don't trust you anymore.
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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.