Clive Sinclair Quotes
I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'
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I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.
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It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.
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The delay in SpaceShipTwo has not been the development of either of the vehicles. But the rocket motor has just been problematic from the get-go.
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I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
