Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
TORI AMOSOver the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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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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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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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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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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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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