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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.

I'm of the school that I will direct you if you request it - if you have a question.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

I have been involved with the Roundabout for over a decade. Every once in a while, they'd give me a call to participate in a reading or offer me a show.