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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.
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I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.
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Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
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Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
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The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.
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I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.
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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.
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You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
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