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When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
Composer
Harpsichordist
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Singer-Songwriter
Newton
North Carolina
Myra Ellen Amos
Ari Tomos
Ellen Amos
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I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.
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We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.
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I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
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Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.
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There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
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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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The pop world has really opened its doors.
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And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?
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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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You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished
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Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.
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The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.
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If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
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This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?
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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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The way I see it, the men that I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?
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People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?
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I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?
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