After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
TORI AMOSWhere we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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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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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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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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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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Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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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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These precious things, let them bleed.
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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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I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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