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The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.

Tori Amos

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
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
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Able People Tomatoes
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
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Choices Growing Keys Up
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation

The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.

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The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.

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