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" I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was. "
Tori Amos
Mum
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" When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great. "
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" I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate. "
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" I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes. "
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" Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people. "
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" The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. "
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