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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

Tori Amos

I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Cards Eye Player Table
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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Ability Church Father
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
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
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
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
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
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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Half Laughing Mouths
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
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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Dragon Go Journey Letting
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People

Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

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