Sadie Jones Quotes

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested.

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

I have facial blindness. It's hugely embarrassing as it makes me seem supercilious or snobbish.

Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape

I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

I am terrible with people's names.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world - the real world wasn't so much fun.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

Short term memory is not good.

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.