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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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."
--- Carly Simon
#War #Accepting #Scar
"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
"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
"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."
--- Carly Simon
#Theater #Musical Theater #Jazz
"You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself."
--- Carly Simon
#Bird #Shelves #Clouds
"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
"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."
--- Carly Simon
#Thinking #Bad Reviews #Reviews
"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."
--- Carly Simon
#Happened #Fashion #Mature
"Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart."
--- Carly Simon
#Broken #Fall #Mind
"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
"My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything."
--- Carly Simon
#Mother #Father #Pianist
"I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say."
--- Carly Simon
#Thinking #Particular #Trying
"But I'm lost when it comes to you."
--- Carly Simon
#Love #Lost
"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody."
--- Carly Simon
#Mean #Be Good #Said
"I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things."
--- Carly Simon
#Unreality #Lovers #Males
"We need role models who are going to break the mold."
--- Carly Simon
#Break #Female Role Models #Roles
"I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it."
--- Carly Simon
#Showing Off #Scar #Want
"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
--- Carly Simon
#Wells #Chosen #Song
"I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo."
--- Carly Simon
#Mastectomy
"I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee."
--- Carly Simon
#Caffeine #Espresso #Dream
"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
"I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore."
--- Carly Simon
#Nobody's Perfect #Perfect #I've Learned
"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
--- Carly Simon
#Dresses #Used #Like Her

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