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"Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it."
A. N. Wilson
Success
Grammar
Depend
Story
"A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'"
A. P. Martinich
Good
Grammar
Philosophy
Half
"In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects."
Aaron Lazar
Grammar
Vocabulary
Favorite
Were
"If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a different person."
Alex Higgins
Person
School
Grammar
Gone
"Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background."
Angela Rayner
Children
Grammar
Ability
About
"The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds."
Angela Rayner
More
Grammar
Evidence
Benefit
"We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy."
Anne Carson
Struggle
Language
Human
Grammar
"In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!"
Beverly Cleary
Back
School
Movies
Grammar
"On 'Frasier,' a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Frasier and Kelsey Grammar play Lithgow's role on '3rd Rock From the Sun;' I've been deeply afraid of the idea of a crossover ever since."
Christopher Lloyd
Sun
Rock
Grammar
Afraid
"My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd."
Dave Brubeck
Me
School
Dad
Grammar
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