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"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."
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"And I've had vocal training on and off for years."
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"You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them."
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"Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand."
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"Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars."
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"MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna."
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"Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal."
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"It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym."
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"Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall."
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"I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training."
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"You learn more doing than doing training."
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"How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!"
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"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."
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"I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many."
Hope

"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."
Life

"But no man has a monopoly of conscience."
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"A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one."
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"But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term."
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"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."
Life

"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."
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"For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town."
Spring
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