At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn’t Brown or Smith or Hughes. Diane Cilento Read Quote
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House. Diane Cilento Read Quote
Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children. Diane Cilento Read Quote
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. Diane Cilento Read Quote
I didn’t know what to do with myself. I wasn’t excited by the teaching of the school. If they’d been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive. Diane Cilento Read Quote
I don’t think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn’t matter how old they were. Diane Cilento Read Quote
I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. Diane Cilento Read Quote
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. Diane Cilento Read Quote
I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don’t, I don’t think you’ve ever really lived. Diane Cilento Read Quote
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn’t sure of it. Diane Cilento Read Quote
