Carly Simon Quotes

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

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• Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

  

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• Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.

  

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• Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

  

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• We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

  

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• No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

  

  Carly Simon