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"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone."
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"Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower."
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"The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning."
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"Keep calm and keep learning."
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"Education opens the door for an extraordinary life."
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"Education is the best fertilizer for the mind."
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"Experience is a necessary education."
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"Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life."
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"Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy."
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"Begin to learn."
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"I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education."
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"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
Decision-Making

"One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed."
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"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that."
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"I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater."
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"In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor."
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"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."
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"In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar."
Thought

"I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge."
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"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone."
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"Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time."
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