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Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
Alan Moore
World
School
Illusion
Thought
Must
Able
Maintain
Until
Cleverest
Boy
Got
Up
Grammar
Grammar School
Growing
Growing Up
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
Anthony Holden
Teacher
Music
Remember
School
Old
Back
Melbourne
Slightly
Horror
Prince
His
Cello
Grammar
Grammar School
Old Music
Produced
Old School
Moment
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
Beverly Cleary
School
Back
About
Allowance
School Years
Leaping
Sails
Years
Ships
Grammar
Grammar School
Midst
Movies
Used
Douglas
Saturday
In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.
Cherie Blair
People
World
Law
Better
School
First
Beginning
Too
Other
Nuns
Ourselves
Better Place
Driven
Idea
Days
Make
Make A Difference
First Place
Were
Been
Very
Just
Difference
Grammar
Grammar School
Place
Us
Youngest
Reasons
I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and there I was, tanned, in a freezing cold playground in the middle of Middlesbrough, wondering what on earth I was doing there.
Chris Rea
Day
Me
Remember
School
First
Cold
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Earth
Only
Like
Freezing
Doing
Person
Wondering
Middle
Being
Grammar
Grammar School
Who
Playground
By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.
Christopher Fowler
Time
Me
Money
School
Father
Every
Every Time
Local
Books
Would
Arm
Reached
Him
Passed
Go
Stack
Sixth
Form
Grammar
Grammar School
Warning
By The Time
University
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.
Cormac McCarthy
Teacher
Home
Remember
School
Matter
Every
Everyone
Given
Only
Could
Take
Had
Name
How
Still
Esoteric
Any
Hobbies
Hobby
Anyone
Anything
Grammar
Grammar School
Asked
My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that.
Eileen Atkins
Family
Class
Money
School
Mother
Men
Nights
Fact
Nobody
Liked
Course
Till
Caught
Doing
Falling
Hearing
Anymore
Grammar
Grammar School
Clubs
Asleep
Working
Reason
Bringing
In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.
Emily Kuroda
School
Everybody
Invisible
Talk
Said
Still
Very
Grammar
Grammar School
Shy
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.
Gary Numan
Home
Me
School
Parents
Trouble
Year
Syndrome
Launching
Loner
Toy
Aeroplanes
Causing
Surprised
Rockets
Child
Grammar
Grammar School
Psychologist
Happiest
Sent
Might
Really
Who
Mum
Started
Suggested
Third
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.
Helen Mirren
Great
Generation
Women
Money
School
Police
Men
Girl
First
Older
Medicine
OK
Part
First Generation
Caught
Educated
Go
Up
Discrimination
Hit
Wall
Grammar
Grammar School
Then
Much
Who
Even
Older Men
Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
John Sulston
Teacher
School
Mother
Sister
Took
Everything
About
Kitchen
Main
She
Talked
Court
Were
Confidant
Children
Break
Grammar
Grammar School
While
Held
English
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
Karl von Frisch
School
Medicine
Later
Faculty
Studied
Grammar
Grammar School
Vienna
University
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
Kate Atkinson
Education
Me
School
Father
Horrible
Had
Allowed
He
House
Got
Go
Private
Denied
Private School
Childhood
Grammar
Grammar School
Place
Paid
Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.
Lee Atwater
Time
School
Band
Whatever
Energy
Say
Kind
High
Would
Some
High School
Percent
Through
Most
Involved
Rock
Least
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Grammar
Grammar School
We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since.
Melvyn Bragg
Great
Library
World
School
Three
Every
Other
Statesman
Out
Table
Mint
Magazines
Week
Since
New
Along
Read
Fresh
Got
Came
Grammar
Grammar School
Then
Unimaginable
Sat
Ever
Started
Copy
Two
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
Mike Farrell
Business
School
Classmates
Knew
Were
Grammar
Grammar School
Hollywood
Who
Early
Raised
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
Paul Nurse
Age
School
Secondary
Secondary School
State
Academic
County
Boy
Moved
Grammar
Grammar School
I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.
Peter Hargreaves
Time
Business
Remember
School
Penny
Year
Own
Thinking
Earn
Everyone
Run
Would
My Own
My Time
Could
Since
Get
Wanted
Grammar
Grammar School
If I Could
Britain
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
Steve Earle
Song
School
Singing
Before
Radical
Kids
Guthrie
Knew
Like
Most
Verses
Up
Grew
Grammar
Grammar School
Woody
Woody Guthrie
Land
Your
Neatly
I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.
Tony Orlando
Me
Heart
Training
School
Thanks
Brought
Give
Parochial
Catholic
Course
Because
Grammar
Grammar School
Jesus
I had very bad temper tantrums. I was in more grammar schools than there are years of grammar school. I got kicked out of, like, two preschools, a kindergarten.
Valee
School
Kicked
Out
Bad
Kindergarten
Temper
More
Had
Like
Schools
Got
Tantrums
Years
Very
Than
Grammar
Grammar School
Two
As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.
Bill O'Reilly
Education
Teacher
Class
Creativity
School
Discipline
Extra
Enough
Those
High
High School
About
High School Teacher
Student
Disadvantaged
Students
Environment
Attention
School Teacher
Know
Stimulate
Motivation
Stable
Expensive
Grammar
Grammar School
Former
Things
Imaginations
Need
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