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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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"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."

"To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall."
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"My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died."

"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!"

"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."

"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."

"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."

"In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction."

"But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term."
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