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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. "

Tori Amos

Life

Know

Gun

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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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Orchestra

You

" I don't see music as working. "

" A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now. "

" Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away. "

" Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people. "

" If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? "

" I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. "

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Loving

Strict

" My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter. "

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Years

Push

" I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something. "

" I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s. "

" I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. "

" I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. "

" Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it. "

" When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything. "

" I want to be an integrated woman. "

" I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty. "

" I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive. "

" 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. "

" I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. "

" My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.' "

" Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. "

" You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie. "

" Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me. "

" I like cosy, intimate houses. "

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Houses

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" My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. "

" There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. "

" When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth. "