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Quotes of Diane Cilento c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
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At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes. (school)
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House. (unknown)
Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children. (children)
Everybody keeps talking about whether they had a happy childhood or not. I can't remember being unhappy. I think I probably was. (childhood)
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Everybody thinks my parents are so well off, but they spent everything they had on keeping this huge mass of people afloat. (parents and parentin)
Everybody thought I was a crazy, funny person who'd do anything, and that's how I got to be acceptable to everyone. (unknown)
I believe academics think that if the child doesn't go to university, they aren't really a serious person and not worth paying the money for. (children)
I cottoned on to Shakespeare and got interested in plays and fascinated by people, fascinated by watching what they did. (writers)
I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing. (unknown)
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. (unknown)
I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were. (family)
I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown. (unknown)
I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. (unknown)
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. (language)
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. (unknown)
I learnt to breathe properly with my voice, and project. I learnt to fence and dance and stand properly and move properly. (movies)
I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived. (unknown)
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it. (unknown)
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers. (teachers and teachin)
I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines. (unknown)
I was always a bit flighty, I suppose. (unknown)
I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed. (people)
I was rebellious as a child. Very much so. It was something to do with authority that I didn't cotton to very well. (children)
I've always had a lot of energy. I was up and about and raging around all the time. And I did get tuberculosis out of it, finally. (unknown)
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion. (fashion)
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Cilento, Diane
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