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- Father of Ainan Celeste Cawley, the scientific child prodigy and husband of Syahidah Osman Cawley, the artist.
- He has been an actor, a writer, a scientist and a performance artist, among other professions, in his life.
His performance art made global news in the early 1990s and was covered on CNN, Reuters and NBC News. - Valentine was born on St. Valentine's Day...hence his unusual name.
- Valentine's performance art piece, Lord Valentine the Misplaced, was a living 18th century dandy, in the context of the 20th Century world. It was highly influential and seems to have inspired many subsequent imitations, including the covers of George Magazine, which consisted of dressing 20th Century people in 18th Century costume, for example, the first cover of Cindy Crawford, as George Washington (an 18th Century figure).
- Valentine played the role of The German Ambassador, in Fragrant Harbour, opposite German icon Veronica Ferres - and spoke his role entirely in German, even though he doesn't actually speak German. Amusingly, the crew were fooled by this and repeatedly addressed him in German, on set, thereafter, thinking him a native speaker of it.
- Giftedness is not a measure of wealth - it is a measure of mind - and great minds may emerge in the most unpromising of circumstances. (August 7, 2007)
- Jade Goody is worthy because she is known, but she is not known because she is worthy. (March 12, 2009)
- An examination is all about testing you on someone else's thoughts. Many children become expert on other people's thoughts - but have none of their own. In some way, focusing too much on what other people have thought and written in books seems to inhibit the development of the ability to have your own.
- The role of a family, is to make a world that has never been and never will be again, to sustain people who have never been and never will be again. A family is a pocket universe, and no less important than the universe itself, for being smaller.
- "Education" might as well be spelt "e-r-a-d-i-c-a-t-i-o-n", where creativity is concerned.
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