Dyslexic Quotes - Page 3

• Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.

  Max Irons

  Eight, Names, Iron

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• A lot of people say they are dyslexic; some have to realize that they are just stupid.

  Bill Maher

  Stupid, People, Realizing

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• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  Salma Hayek

  Passion, Speak English, United States

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2003.

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• It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve.

  Erin Richards

  Battle, Able, Way

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• I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

  Tom Ford

  Running, Opposites, United States

  "My List: Tom Ford in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2012.

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• D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.

  Justin Theroux

  Growing Up, Cities, Late

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Growing Up, War, Reading

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twenties. So really what I was looking at were the photographs and the illustrations in magazines.

  Robert Benton

  Children, Illustration, Years

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

  Marian Keyes

  Love Is, Alzheimer's, Dumb

  Marian Keyes (2009). “Last Chance Saloon”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I was so dyslexic as a kid, and still am, and music was such a great form of escape to me. At school I'd keep my head down and try not to get beat up, and then I'd get home and music would be like a drug to me.

  Daniel Powter

  Home, School, Kids

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• Well, I'm very dyslexic, so I can't read music. It means I never know where I'm at so it's different every single time. I know when it works though. I might end up doing a bosa nova version of Bad Day when I get to Australia!

  Daniel Powter

  Mean, Bad Day, Australia

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• I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't get to do. And then I started writing things down on little scraps of paper and I would hide them. I would write the year on them and then I would stuff them in a drawer somewhere. But I didn't start to really read until about eight. I'm dyslexic, so it took a long time.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Eight, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.

  Richard Branson

  Couple, Eye, Thinking

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Attention, Disorder, Deficit

  "What I've Learned: Ozzy Osbourne" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 1, 2005.

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• I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

  Debbie Macomber

  Teacher, School, Said

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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'm quite dyslexic in school.

  Georgia May Jagger

  School

  "Georgia May Jagger: The Interview" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 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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• My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Dad, School, Parent

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• You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Short Love, Children, Real

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

  Raha Moharrak

  Writing, Creativity, Hands

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• 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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• I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

  Rachel Cohn

  Morse Code, Signals, Given

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.36, Egmont UK

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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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• 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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