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Diane Cilento

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices."

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Amber Hurdle

"And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion."

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Amber Hurdle

"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."

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Amber Hurdle

"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."

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Amber Hurdle

"People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them."

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Amber Hurdle

"I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new."

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Amber Hurdle

"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion."

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Amber Hurdle

"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."

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Diane Cilento
"Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once."

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Diane Cilento
"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

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Diane Cilento
"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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Diane Cilento
"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."

Science

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Diane Cilento
"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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Diane Cilento
"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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Diane Cilento
"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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Diane Cilento
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."

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Diane Cilento
"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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Diane Cilento
"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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