Daniel Tammet Quotes
Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down.
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Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
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I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit Mahotra, Karan Malhotra, Tarun Mansukhani or Shakun Batra, all of them have taught me something or the other.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was 'do it scared.' And no matter if you're scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.
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I've always been stubborn.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.
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When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down.
