A Quote by Caitlin Moran

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

Caitlin Moran

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Caitlin Moran
British - Journalist
Born: April 5, 1975

When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.

Craig David

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Michelle Obama

You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

Eddie Marsan

I grew up moving from one council flat to another and finished up in a three-bedroom semi-detached on a council estate in Cranford, a suburb of Hounslow. This was in the days when there was still rationing, and we had to be thrifty.

Ian Gillan

Everything kind of happened like: 'Bam!' for me. One minute I was living on a council estate somewhere, then I won the Mercurys, then all of a sudden press and people were in my face.

Dizzee Rascal

I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a council estate that overlooked the Tyne and I went to the same junior school as Paul Gascoigne, of whom I have a vague memory.

David Olusoga

If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.

Pete Doherty

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

Thomas Sowell

I never felt bright enough. I never felt confident. I felt that kid coming out of the council estate, like I was never good enough.

Emma Hayes

I grew up on a council estate.

Wunmi Mosaku

I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.

Kyle Walker

I can honestly say that throughout the 70s I never watched telly. I can remember 'Dr Who' and 'Morecambe and Wise' vaguely, but my generation didn't watch telly.