Dyslexia Quotes - Page 2

• I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

  Loretta Young

  School, Disability, Reason

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• I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

  Cher

  School, Class, Listening

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• I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.

  Jewel

  Reading, Passion, Littles

  "Celebrities with dyslexia", www.foxnews.com.

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• I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.

  Hank Williams III

  School, Wish, Together

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• I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

  Harry Belafonte

  School, West Indies, Students

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• My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

  Bella Thorne

  Reading, Class, Support

  "Meet Shake It Up's Bella Thorne!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2010.

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• My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

  William Butler Yeats

  Teacher, Father, Book

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Growing Up, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Political Humor

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• I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

  Susan Hampshire

  Teacher, Hard Work, People

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• I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

  Channing Tatum

  School, Focus, Drug

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• I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

  Bruce Jenner

  School, Helping, Disability

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• Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always been happy as a writer just to entertain myself. That's an easier place to start.

  Stephen J. Cannell

  Kids, Class, Perfect

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• Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

  Eddie Izzard

  Kids, Scrabble, Nazi

  "Eddie Izzard: Stripped". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

  Bella Thorne

  Girl, Add, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think everybody should have dyslexia and ADD.

  Paul Orfalea

  Thinking, Should Have, Should

  "Why Business Needs People With Asperger's Syndrome, Attention-Deficit Disorder And Dyslexia". www.businessinsider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  Fannie Flagg

  Order, Missing, Excellent

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• I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Struggle, Reading, Writing

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• I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Overcoming, Difficult, Humans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.

  Henry Winkler

  Book, Writing, Careers

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.

  Temple Grandin

  Doctors, Autism, Other Half

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

  Scoot McNairy

  Eye, Disability, Visuals

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.

  Willard Wigan

  Teacher, Careers, Shoes

  "Buzz Aldrin Needle Sculpture Created By English Artist Willard Wigan" by Leonard David, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• 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

  Book, Reading, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

  Robert Benton

  Writing, Down And, Stories

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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