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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

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
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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Father Kings Rights
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
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
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
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
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
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
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 don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want

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