Temple Grandin Quotes

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

Temple Grandin

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In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Simon McBurney

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Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Travis Bradberry

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We believe the way social change occurs in the United States, over the last 200 years, is the democratic process.

Tom Steyer

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The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

Mona Simpson

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I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the African Cup of Nations - and preferably winning it.

Mona Eltahawy

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When my sitcom 'Miranda' first became successful, I was so in the thick of working and I was so stressed that I didn't really enjoy the moment. You suddenly look back and go, 'Gosh, you've just got to enjoy every day.' And now I wake up and literally pinch myself every day.

Miranda Hart

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I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.

Jordan Gavaris

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I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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I get mail; therefore I am.

Scott Adams

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Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

Thomas Perry

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I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.

Rick Yune

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Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

Nikki Sixx

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