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I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.

- Simon McBurney
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I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.

I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.

I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.