Dyslexic Quotes - Page 4

• Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!

  Rick Riordan

  Smart, Mean, Frustration

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• A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.

  Jackie French

  Memories, Reading, Kids

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• Kids made fun of me because I was dark skinned, had a wide nose, and was dyslexic. Even as an actor, it took me a long time to realize why words and letters got jumbled in my mind and came out differently.

  Danny Glover

  Fun, Kids, Dark

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• I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am.

  Jules Feiffer

  Wells, Knows

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Father, Writing, Mad

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• I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

  Lee Pace

  Reading, College, Numbers

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• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers.

  Douglas Booth

  School, Numbers, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

  Richard Ford

  Book, People, Literature

  "Richard Ford: Pulitzer winner, focused reader". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 15, 2012.

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• It turns out your not dyslexic, your just really really stupid.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

  Yann Martel

  Dog, Atheist, Pain

  Yann Martel (2012). “Self”, p.12, Vintage Canada

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