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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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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
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"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
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"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."
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"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."
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"It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs."
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"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."
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"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."
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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."
Time
"Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money."
Money
"You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round."
Home
"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 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."
School
"Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once."
Bed
"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."
Funny
"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."
Money
"If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though."
Work
"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
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