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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.

Tori Amos

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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Fart Mean Thirteen Want
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
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
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
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
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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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight

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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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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