Liane Holliday Willey quotes

“Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.”
-- Liane Holliday Willey

Source : Liane Holliday Willey (2014). “Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition”, p.96, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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“Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help young children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome overcome their struggles with the really tough issues blocking their positive growth and development. Therapists, educators and parents caring for autistic children who endure a heavy load of anger, distrust, difficult interpersonal relationships, poor self-esteem and self-doubt need this excellent book.”
-- Liane Holliday Willey

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“Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.”
-- Liane Holliday Willey

Source : Source: www.pathfindermentoring.com

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“I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.”
-- Liane Holliday Willey

Source : Source: www.pathfindermentoring.com

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“I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.”
-- Liane Holliday Willey

Source : Source: www.pathfindermentoring.com

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“Sadness puts my heart in a prison.”
-- Liane Holliday Willey

Source : Source: www.pathfindermentoring.com

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“I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.”
-- Liane Holliday Willey

Source : Source: www.pathfindermentoring.com

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“I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.”

“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”

Source : "Aasif Mandvi talks about acting, comedy and Middle Eastern Corresponding". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. November 02, 2011.

“I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.”

Source : "Abigail Breslin Talks JANIE JONES, NEW YEAR’S EVE, Animated ZAMBEZIA, and Other Upcoming Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 28, 2011.

“The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up”

“Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.”

“Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.”

“You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”

“Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.”

Source : "From musical to memoir, actor Anthony Rapp comes up with dramatic making-of 'Rent' story and moving personal one" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. February 21, 2006.

“I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.”

Source : Antonia Fraser (1977). “Quiet as a Nun”