Daniel Tammet Quotes
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
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I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.
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I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.
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There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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I think we're taking a snapshot view of climate change and trying to implement policy based on that snapshot.
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I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
