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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.

Tori Amos

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
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
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
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
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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Able People Tomatoes
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
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
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’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
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
I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Country Dream People Thinking
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.

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