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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.

Tori Amos

I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Country People Sometimes Want
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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Half Laughing Mouths
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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Father Kings Rights
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
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
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
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
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Believe Order Powerful
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
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

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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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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