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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

#about #connect #fearful #feel #happy

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

#generalize #infinitely #specialize #them #women

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#anyway #brash #cats #crowd #early

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#characters #even #fall #getting #i

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#books #critics #never #people #read

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

#does #human #much #only #people

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs. ↗

— Judy Collins

#also #apt #come #down #dream

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful. ↗

— Lily Collins

#beautiful #bigger #bother #brows #different

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#books #cease #chosen #fail #few

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events