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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.

Tori Amos

I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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Crew Reading Thinking
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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Aunt Niece Years
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Art Books Hearing Things
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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Beer Cob Corn Father
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Believe Order Powerful
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Great Law Mother Relationship

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