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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

— Patrick White

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

— Ed Westwick

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

— John Dyer

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

— Lauren Graham

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

— Maurice Jarre

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

— Richard Griffiths

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

— Eric Idle

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

— Peter Capaldi

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

— Meg Rosoff

✗Opposing Perspectives

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

The fact is that I loved being in England.

— Martin Cruz Smith