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Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.

~Anne Reid

Topics: Abroad Always Been Before Big Boarding Boarding School Christmas Cooking Day Few Goose Great Had Itself Mummy Parents Presents Remember Sack School Very Young I Remember

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Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

~Arne Jacobsen

Topics: Because Been Besides Boarding Boarding School Both Comradeship Fairly Fine Hard Resistance School Some Then Think Through Training You I Think

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I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.

~Belinda Stewart-Wilson

Topics: About Boarding Boarding School Did Eight Get Laugh Material Put School Shows Sketch Sure Used

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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: Adolescence Boarding Boarding School Crap Having Just School Your

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I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

~Bode Miller

Topics: Because Boarding Boarding School Coaches Good Had Luckily Me Period Resisted Saying School Should Skiing Skinny Snowboarding Switch Technique Terrible Thought Through Too Wanted Were

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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

~C. C. H. Pounder

Topics: Again Back Boarding Boarding School Gave Get Going Had Head Hit Kid Me Memory Nuns Poems Problems Remember School Try

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I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

~Cameron Mackintosh

Topics: Always Asked Baby Bath Boarding Boarding School Brought College Father Fees Going Had He How Parents Park Pay Prior Rationing Remember Remember When Replied School Sent Struggle Up War I Remember

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My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.

~Carmen Busquets

Topics: Boarding Boarding School Caught Chewing Chewing Gum Convent Down Gum Harry Harry Potter Horrible Lady Like Magic Me Members Names Our Parents Potter Public Report School Sent Sometimes Take Town Uniform Us Venezuela Were Which Without Would

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I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.

~Charles Best

Topics: Art Boarding Boarding School Book Could Courts Enough Ever Every Go Had High High School Lucky Needed Possibly Resources School Squash Supply Wanted Would Years You

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I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

~Chris Hughes

Topics: Being Boarding Boarding School Left Religious School Southern Straight

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