"All the time I was plowing through books on dyslexia, I found myself asking: what if, what if? What if you were a kid the 1950s with this condition, when there were no books on it, when there was no understanding of it. I remember kids in my class at school who just didn't seem to progress in their reading. There was no extra help. People just thought, "Oh, he or she isn't so bright, or they're obstinate.""

-- Maggie O'Farrell

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“With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.”

Source : Tommy Tenney (2004). “Finding Favor With the King: Preparing For Your Moment in His Presence”, p.53, Baker Books
“I'm not sure if we're going to or not because what happens is I'd always love to see certain characters back, there's so many. Some of it has to do with, if we want them back, are they available and the other aspect is do they fit with the storyline we're telling.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.”
“All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.”
“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”
“If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin
“Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book.”
“I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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