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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
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"What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that."
"If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything."
"As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished."
"A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that."
"Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise."
"I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood."
"I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me."
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