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Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.

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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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If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.
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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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Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.
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I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.
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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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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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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 have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.
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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.
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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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