"Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function."

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Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part III:". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 15, 2011.

Darold Treffert

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“George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.”
“More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.”
“All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.”
“A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.”

Source : "Seventeen Gets the Scoop from Twilight's Chaske Spencer!". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. August 13, 2009.
“Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.”
“The best part is coming." "What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?" "No. That's the finale.”
“Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.”

Source : Stephen Prothero (2010). “God Is Not One”, p.356, ReadHowYouWant.com

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