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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

Topics: Able Boy Got Grammar Grammar School Growing Growing Up Illusion Maintain Must School Thought Until Up World

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In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Act Anyone Being Career Could Did Grammar Grammar School Hart Magical Me Moss Most Never Play Playwright Read Romantic School Struck Write

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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

Topics: Back Cello Grammar Grammar School His Horror Melbourne Moment Music Old Old Music Old School Prince Produced Remember School Slightly Teacher I Remember

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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

Topics: About Allowance Back Douglas Grammar Grammar School Midst Movies Sails Saturday School Ships Used Years 1920S

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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

Topics: About Attention Class Creativity Disadvantaged Discipline Education Enough Environment Expensive Extra Former Grammar Grammar School High High School Imaginations Know Motivation Need School School Teacher Stable Stimulate Student Students Teacher Things Those

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Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

~Bobby Mcferrin

Topics: After Besides Chorus Clarinet College Flute Grammar Grammar School Like Orchestra Played School Singing Then Things

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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

Topics: Been Beginning Better Better Place Days Difference Driven First First Place Grammar Grammar School Idea Just Law Make Make A Difference Nuns Other Ourselves People Place Reasons School Too Us Very Were World Youngest

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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

Topics: Arm Books By The Time Every Every Time Father Form Go Grammar Grammar School Him Local Me Money Passed Reached School Sixth Stack Time University Warning Would

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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

Topics: Any Anyone Anything Asked Could Esoteric Every Everyone Given Grammar Grammar School Had Hobbies Hobby Home How Matter Name Only Remember School Still Take Teacher I Remember

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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: Cattle Cows Dad Eighth Eighth Grade Four Gave Grade Graduated Grammar Grammar School He Herd His Kept Manager Me Own Owned Ranch School Them Those Track Years

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