Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
TORI AMOSThe most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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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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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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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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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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These precious things, let them bleed.
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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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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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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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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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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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