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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
Composer
Harpsichordist
Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Newton
North Carolina
Myra Ellen Amos
Ari Tomos
Ellen Amos
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People
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Sacred
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.
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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.
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I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.
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There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
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I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.
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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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There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.
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There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.
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Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy
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I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.
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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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From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.
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