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> [There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-hill/there-was-an-undercurrent-of-poverty-throughout-my-childhood-we-lived/)

[Bernard Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-hill/)

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> [Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-hill/actually-parts-of-new-zealand-remind-me-of-suffolk-there-s-not-many/)

[Bernard Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-hill/)

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## Other authors on Flat

## More by Bernard Hill

> [I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-hill/i-had-a-really-good-time-working-with-jim-cameron-a-lot-of-people/)

[Bernard Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-hill/)

> [There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-hill/there-was-an-undercurrent-of-poverty-throughout-my-childhood-we-lived/)

[Bernard Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-hill/)

> [Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-hill/actually-parts-of-new-zealand-remind-me-of-suffolk-there-s-not-many/)

[Bernard Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-hill/)

> [I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-hill/i-don-t-understand-why-people-expect-tips-in-hotels-you-order-food-in/)

[Bernard Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-hill/)

> [I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-hill/i-grew-up-in-manchester-and-we-were-very-poor-my-father-was-a-miner/)

[Bernard Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-hill/)

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