Recent Years
Day lives near Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. where she prefers to be known as Clara Kappelhoff, combining an old nickname ("Clara", by friend Billy de Wolfe) and her family name at birth. In 2011, Day released My Heart, her first album of new material since 1967's The Love Album. With its debut at No. 9, Day made history, becoming the oldest female artist to ever have had a top ten album on the Top 40 Official UK Album chart. In October 2011, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced that Day would be the recipient of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“We are prisoners of the world’s demented sink.
The soft enchantments of our years of innocence
Are harvested by accredited experience
Our fondest memories soon turn to poison
And only oblivion remains in season.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Then for years and years
And for miles and miles
‘Cross the Aegean Isles,
Athens, Rome, France, Britain,
Always West-Northwest ...”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)