There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon... →
Daniel Tammet
Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy... →
My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the... →
I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.
Amy Tan
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been... →
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced... →
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by... →
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were... →
Every business I don't know, if I spend enough time - a couple of months - I will know a lot. I know quite a lot about football now. I know the... →
Vincent Tan