"High school is very intense for everyone. But……" — Curtis Sittenfeld
"High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified."
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70 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors…
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People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I…
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a…
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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an…
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I…
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If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real…
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go…
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds…
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I'm so trying to give up meat.
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I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites?…
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Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to…
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My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to…
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I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding…
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My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six…
— Steve Carell
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.
— Graydon Carter
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
— Julian Casablancas
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At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
— Henry Cavill
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Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens…
— Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.
— Darrell Royal
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I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.
— Karolina Kurkova
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I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake…
— Raquel Welch
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