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I want to be an integrated woman.

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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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Woman

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Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.
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In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango
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I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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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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There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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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.
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My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.
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So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
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You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.
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I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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A lot of songs are derivative of each other.
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When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
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Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.
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People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.
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Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.
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I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.
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That's the thing about letting old lovers go. You don't stop loving some of them. There are a couple you love no less than you ever did. Not to mention namesbut I'm still in love with a couple. You're not going to try and make it work again, but if they needed you, you'd drop everything.
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