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If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. ↗

— Russell Simmons

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My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#beautiful #beautiful women #day #every #every day

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17. ↗

— Carly Simon

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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

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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. ↗

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

#every #i #make #never #personal

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. ↗

— David Simon

#make #only #reason #story #wants

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. ↗

— Neil Simon

#care #couples #every #feel #happy

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets. ↗

— Paul Simon

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