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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.

Tori Amos

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
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
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
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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Humanity Song Trust
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
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
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Great Law Mother Relationship
I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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Mean Something Soul Thinking
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.

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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.

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