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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Total Quotes 28
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.
Children
Thinking
Stuff
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
Names
Brown
Both My Parents Were Doctors, And My Mother Had Her Surgery In The House. There Were Six Children.
Mother
Children
Doctors
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.
Teaching
School
Littles
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.
Energy
Want
Stretching
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.
Mother
Father
Worry
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.
Writing
Mathematics
Algebra
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.
Sleep
Thinking
Rage
I Learnt The Theory Of Movement, Which I Still Teach Sometimes. I Was Very, Very Ambitious To Learn A Skill.
Skills
Ambitious
Movement
I Had A Quick Ear And Could Pick Up Languages.
Ears
Language
Picks
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.
Stupid
Years
Two
I Don't Think In My Family Anyone Looked After Anyone. It Didn't Matter How Old They Were.
Thinking
Matter
My Family
Any Woman Who Marries An Italian Must Accept The Undeniable Fact That She Has Also Married His Mother.
Mother
Italian
Facts
You Never Came Home For Lunch: You Just Stayed Doing, Playing, Having Fun, Surfing, Running Round.
Running
Fun
Home
My Mother Felt It Was Time That I Had Some Parental Control, So I Went Off To America And Went To New York.
Mother
New York
America
Very Quickly, Without Really Looking Back Or Trying, I Was Just Suddenly Lifted Into Another Sphere.
Trying
Spheres
Looking Back
Once, The Parental Bed Collapsed Because All The Children Sat On It At Once.
Children
Bed
Parental
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.
Grandmother
Piano
Different
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.
Girl
Fashion
School
Suddenly I Had A Contract And I Was Earning Lots Of Money.
Earning
Contracts
Lots Of Money
When I Did Taming Of The Shrew, I Was Very Tired, And I Decided To Have A Holiday And Make A Documentary.
Tired
Holiday
Taming
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.
Teacher
People
Taught
Blank House Was Exactly A Nice Empty Sheet Where Nothing Was Accountable Because You Were So Naughty That You Were In Blank House.
Nice
Naughty
House
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.
Home
Naughty
People
Born: October 5, 1933
Died: October 6, 2011
Occupation: Theatre Actress
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