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"I'm a little old-fashioned - I like it when the man opens the door and I like it when a man pays for me. I particularly like it when they pay for dinner or whatever, because I've pretty much done the opposite, but for the exception of James [Taylor], where we split everything down the middle. I've been the larger money earner in practically all of my relationships. There's equality and there are positive differences, which are complimentary."

--- Carly Simon

#Exception #Differences #Old Fashioned

"It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected."

--- Carly Simon

#Purple #Magic #Red

"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."

--- Carly Simon

#Feels #Knows #Canvas

"The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be."

--- Carly Simon

#Reality #Advancement #Made

"Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting."

--- Carly Simon

#Late #Anticipation #Waiting

"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

--- Carly Simon

#Rocks #Folks #Models

"Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to."

--- Carly Simon

#Moments #Painful Moments #Life

"We need role models who are going to break the mold."

--- Carly Simon

#Break #Female Role Models #Roles

"So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that."

--- Carly Simon

#Including #Songwriters #Form

"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."

--- Carly Simon

#Shapes #Deny #Trying

"Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins."

--- Carly Simon

#Annie #Stage #Bigs

"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."

--- Carly Simon

#Wells #Chosen #Song

"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

--- Carly Simon

#Theater #Musical Theater #Jazz

"I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo."

--- Carly Simon

#Mastectomy

"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."

--- Carly Simon

#War #Reconstruction #Long

"You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause."

--- Carly Simon

#People #Posters #Knows

"Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way."

--- Carly Simon

#People #Ears #Too Much

"I haven't got time for the pain."

--- Carly Simon

#Havens #Sadness #Pain

"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 punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums."

--- Carly Simon

#Discretion #Favors #Backgrounds

"All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first."

--- Carly Simon

#Thinking #Fighting #Race

"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 take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."

--- Carly Simon

#My Boyfriend #Scratches #Writing

"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 way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."

--- Carly Simon

#Way #Writing #Objectivity

"My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters."

--- Carly Simon

#Matching #Dresses #Lucy

"I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth."

--- Carly Simon

#Thinking #Interesting #Revelations

"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."

--- Carly Simon

#Fighting #Cancer #Knows

"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 scars."

--- Carly Simon

#Scar #Cancer #Breasts

"Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power."

--- Carly Simon

#Fields #Trailblazers #Men

"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."

--- Carly Simon

#Fear #Anxiety Attacks #Anxiety

"You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own."

--- Carly Simon

#Eye #Beautiful #Loving Eyes

"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."

--- Carly Simon

#Standards #Song #Easy

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