Toni Collette Quotes

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

Toni Collette

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RelationshipYourselfHappyPeople

Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous, very destructive, but not to do it means you are satisfied with the status quo - and that's a kind of danger as well, because a kind of violence is already being perpetuated.

John Edgar Wideman

PeopleRealityViolenceYouKind

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

Megan Abbott

FoodThinkViewPlaceWayEveryone

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

Robert Harris

DayWordsEnoughStopToo MuchTry

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

Matt Harvey

WordsMediaYouWantOne WordWrite

You address the respect issue in a team-meeting environment. With respect to its application, it's not just locker room. It's practice field. It's on and off the field. It's on Sunday, and it's on game days.

Jeff Fisher

RespectPracticeGameYouSunday

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

Steve Carell

ImaginationBookReadingPlayGoing

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

Rod Stewart

HusbandBetterI CanSayBecomeGot

You can't learn to be ambitious and driven.

Ron Conway

LearnYouDrivenAmbitious

I would love to work with Eminem, Dr. Dre. I wish I could have been in the studio with Bob Marley.

DJ Khaled

WorkLoveWishI WishBeenWould

A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.

Donnie Yen

PeopleYouActingActorRealize

I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

Douglas Booth

TogetherThreeTwoGirlfriendMay

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

Coleman Hawkins

StyleWordsMePlayWhateverSeems

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