Quotes about "Neurodiversity & Different Abilities"

Dad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments. ”

It's so nice to run into people even now who - if I'm out, a couple of times a week, somebody comes up to me and says, 'I just loved you in '50 First Dates.' That movie is my favorite movie. I just watched it last night.' In my head, I'm always thinking, 'You're kidding me. I never watch anything twice.' ”

Blood probably tastes like salty water, right? ”

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress. ”

I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream. ”

In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.' ”

I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.' ”

I like to go out to different restaurants in New York. I'm a restaurant junkie. ”

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights. ”

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges. ”