"My mother felt it was time that I……" — Diane Cilento
"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York."
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28 Quotes by Diane Cilento
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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 didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been…
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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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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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