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You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

Tori Amos

There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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Aunt Niece Years
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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Coming Euphoria Forty
The 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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Important Music Sometimes
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
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
Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Feelings Last Way
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
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
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

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