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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Tori Amos

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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Giving Pioneers Taught
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Music Play Song
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
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
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
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Looks Naked Sex
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
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Age Crystals Hippie
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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Conversation Interviews Sometimes
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong

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