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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.

~Damian Lewis

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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

~Damian Lewis

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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: About Age Boarding Boarding School Come Community Education Eight First Forged Friendships Furnace Kind Lifelong Little Living One Thing Out People Prep Retreat School Talk Teaches Then Thing Why You

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I'm from the Detroit area, just north of Detroit. But then I went to boarding school in northern Michigan, so a little bit colder up there. But beautiful, very beautiful.

~Dan Amboyer

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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

~Daniel Espinosa

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I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.

~David Dastmalchian

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I think boarding school does give you an independence.

~Deirdre O'Kane

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Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

~Deirdre O'Kane

Topics: Before Boarding Boarding School Breakfast Catholic Classic Days Every Every Sunday Growing Growing Up Irish Kid Mass May Me Off Put School Secondary Seven Sunday Then Up Week Your

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