“I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.” WantYearsRememberYoungHoursGrewBehaviorGrew UpBackgroundsNoiseTouchedPlatesCarpetSpinningAutisticYaksBackground NoiseSpinning Plates Author:Temple Grandin
“I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but its entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if youre a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.” IfsEndsHelpingBrainToo MuchLateConnectionsComedianEntertainingPlatesSpinningAdhdSpinning Plates Author:Rory Bremner
“You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.” KnowsKindSometimesBodyGuyActingAirSixSevenYour BodyPerformersPlatesCircusSpinningThat GuySpinning Plates Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“I don't think balance is ever achieved in the full sense of the word. Life is more like a juggling act, spinning plates in the air, allowing some to drop, and picking them back up or adding new ones when the timing is right.” ThinkingLife IsAirBalanceAllowingPlatesTimingSpinningJugglingSpinning Plates Author:Candace Cameron
“I look at comic books, and I do very eclectic mood boards with ideas and images that have to do with a character or story point. It's a bit like spinning plates. You gradually just steal your ideas.” LooksBookIdeasCharacterStoriesBitsMoodStealingComicBoardsPlatesComic BookSpinningEclecticSpinning Plates Author:Alexandra Byrne
“These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.” PeopleYearsSeemsTurnsRoomsWalkingPhotographyYears AgoStandingWindowDryPrintPlatesShedSixtyCapturedAlleysWorkshopsSpinning Plates Author:Ansel Adams
“My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.” TryingSonHusbandPrioritiesMy HusbandMy SonPlatesSpinningSpinning Plates Author:Sherri Shepherd