"I didn't know what to do with myself.……" — Diane Cilento
"I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive."
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28 Quotes by Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento has 28 quotes on this site.
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Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were…
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I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
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At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a…
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I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.
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I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two…
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I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
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I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
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I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where…
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I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught…
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I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very…
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I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent…
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You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth…
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail…
— Charles Brent
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers.…
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…
— David Brainerd
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While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without…
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities…
— Pope John Paul II
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for…
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my…
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
— Groucho Marx
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
— John Szarkowski
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