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I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?

Tori Amos

I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Emotional Moving Player
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night Thinking
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
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
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Believe Knowing
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
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
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
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
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

I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?

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