Carly Simon Quotes
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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I invite her back to my apartment, or as I call it, the 'Death Star.' I'm still working on it, it's not completely operational.
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The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.
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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
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Grade die Individualität ist das Ursprüngliche und Ewige im Menschen; an der Personalität ist so viel nicht gelegen. Die Bildung und Entwicklung dieser Individualität als höchsten Beruf zu treiben, wäre ein göttlicher Egoismus.
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It is good to praise others but it important to look for faults within oneself. It is nice to be concerned about people but to be introspective is even nicer.
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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
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I'm not a big horror movie fan. I am afraid of them; they scare me.
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I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.
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By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!
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Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
