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Tori Amos

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
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
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source
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
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
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
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
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
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
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 wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
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
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks

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