Toni Collette Quotes

I'm starting to realise that there are certain themes that I return to, those being that there is no such thing as normal, and people finding their voice and living authentically. And also that you can be influenced and helped through an extended family.

Toni Collette

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FamilyPeopleVoiceFindingYou

When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

Jill Soloway

LifeAloneTimeHappyBeing Alone

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Anderson Cooper

SkinJumpHappenTakeUsOff

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Toni Morrison

PeopleBlackUnderstandingSmiling

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.

Robert Winston

PeopleUncertaintyDangerousDeal

The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game.

Mary Hart

StarsGameYouPlayKnowHandle

Even though I was dealing with all of these health issues, I was still doing well during my season. It wasn't the best season, but it was consistent. And I figured if I could be this consistent when I'm not my best, what happens when I get better, where could I be? So I wanted to see what I would be like on the other side.

Michelle Carter

HealthBestBetterDoingSeeSide

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

MistakesLogicLookSenseMustMake

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Dennis Prager

PeopleFreeCapitalismSelfishMedia

In sports, big names and celebrities drive events, and that's what people gravitate to.

Donovan Bailey

SportsPeopleDriveEventsNames

My plan for 'The New York Times,' if I get the deal, will be putting the paper on every newsstand across the country and making 'The Times' accessible to every Chinese household. China is such a big market and is too big to miss.

Chen Guangbiao

New YorkPlanCountryNewWillBig

Being able to connect with other humans is something I've done since I was little.

Clemantine Wamariya

DoneLittleConnectBeingSomething

In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job. I can say, 'Oh, my height,' and that'll make me feel better, but I don't know for sure.

Anne Dudek

JobMeThinkBetterFeelI Can

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