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I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit. -- James Van Der Beek
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible. -- Robert Benton
I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge. -- Bella Thorne
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it. -- Richard Branson
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood. -- Richard Rogers
Quick: noise made by a dyslexic duck -- Barry Cryer
I'm a dyslexic person, so I avoid books. -- Eddie Izzard
I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path. -- Joe Anderson
It turns out your not dyslexic, your just really really stupid. -- Frankie Boyle
I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. -- David Bailey
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. -- David Bailey
I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming. -- Jean Dujardin
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I don't want anyone to feel they can't achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic. -- Mollie King
I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. -- Jules Feiffer
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? -- David Foster Wallace
I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school. -- Ashley Scott
So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects. -- Carmen Busquets
One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal. -- Jay Leno
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. -- Caitlyn Jenner
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. -- Caitlyn Jenner
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
I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read. -- Andrew Young
I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through. -- Bella Thorne
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
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
Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process. -- Orlando Bloom
Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others. -- Richard Branson
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities. -- Chuck Close
If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process. -- Bruce Jenner
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
It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards. -- Bruce Jenner
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog. -- David Foster Wallace
Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself. -- Dax Shepard
Kids made fun of me because I was dark skinned, had a wide nose, and was dyslexic. Even as an actor, it took me a long time to realize why words and letters got jumbled in my mind and came out differently. -- Danny Glover
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
I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know? -- Tim Conway
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. -- Caitlyn Jenner
If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head. -- Caitlyn Jenner
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
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite. -- Yann Martel
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
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
I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad. [But] if I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily. And I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. -- Bruce Jenner
I'm quite dyslexic in school. -- Georgia May Jagger
A dyslexic man walks into a bra. -- Tommy Cooper
I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator. -- Rachel Cohn
The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic. -- Dennis Miller
Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hi, well soon return you to the dyslexic production of Bitty Bitty Chang Chang... -- Colin Mochrie
A lot of people say they are dyslexic; some have to realize that they are just stupid. -- Bill Maher
Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference. -- Bruce Bickford
Unlikely things to see in a Valentine's card - "I may be dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't vole you." -- Russell Howard
I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days! -- Douglas Booth
Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance." Percy: "Seriously?" Frank: "And I love ice cream too... -- Rick Riordan
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
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
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
I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists. -- Anne Lamott
Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I donâ??t read reviews, I mean I donâ??t read reviews. -- Ozzy Osbourne
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
I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. -- Isabel Gillies
My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule. -- Tom Cruise
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers. -- Douglas Booth
I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree -- Joel McHale

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