Daniel Tammet My first memory – at about four – was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do. – Daniel Tammet Autism Quotes Combination Quotes Doctors Quotes Experience Quotes Memory Quotes Mild Quotes Seizures Quotes Study Quotes It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn’t how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue. We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that’s much closer to art and literature than any science.
Dana Carvey I wasn’t very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you’re sort of a puppet, and you’re doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn’t very good in movies where I didn’t have control. – Dana Carvey
Christine Taylor We have a new puppy and that’s enough! Two babies and three dogs is enough. – Christine Taylor
Selenis Leyva My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas. – Selenis Leyva
Joe Haldeman I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don’t just use it for writing my fiction. – Joe Haldeman
Jimmy Smits Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I’ve been wanting to do. – Jimmy Smits
Halima Aden What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life. – Halima Aden
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