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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I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that,...

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Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were...

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

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I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very...

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I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old...

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I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

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Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

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At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back,...

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My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which...

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I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

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The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning...

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I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics,...