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Tori Amos

There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
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
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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Church Daughter People Play Separation
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
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain

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