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I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.


Nina Bawden


#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.


Antony Beevor


#both #enjoy #enjoy reading #experience #i

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.


J. C. Watts


#affirmative #affirmative action #badly #based #because

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.


Ronald Biggs


#attendance #building #i #proper #putting






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