Diane Cilento quotes
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“Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.”
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“It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.”
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“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.”
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“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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“When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.”
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“Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.”
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“Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.”
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“If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.”
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“The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.”
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“The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.”
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“I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.”
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“Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.”
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“Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.”
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“Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.”
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“My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.”
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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 pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.”
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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 intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.”
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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 years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.”
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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 we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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 to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.”
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“You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.”
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“Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.”
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