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- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
- Numbers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating on what I can do, I think I can contribute to society. And that gives me the desire to keep pushing, to see what I'm capable of. The thing to do is not to stop.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020