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I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!

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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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