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Boarding school Quote by Esme Young

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“I had a comfortable, middle-class upbringing and went to boarding school when I was five.”

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I love how the sewers express their vision. They all have their own personalities, and that's what they bring to the room.

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If you read fashion magazines, and you couldn't afford something, or you were living outside London, you had to make it yourself.

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Young designers will often look at things in a different way, and when I was first designing, that's exactly how I felt. People would…

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Even making clothes for Hollywood films, you do not get paid silly money. It is hard work and takes time.

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When I was 21, I left college and set up business Swanky Modes with three friends in Camden, North London. We were four women…

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I'll probably find it quite hard not to say what I think.

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Different types of knitwear stretch in different ways, and if it's hand-knitted then it can come undone.

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If you're unhappy with what's in stores, you can think: 'I'll do it myself.' And you can put your own personality on what you…

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Well, I've made elderflower cordial.

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'Sewing Bee' is making people realize that you can do it yourself.

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The first things I made were absolute pig's ears. I didn't understand about facings, or finishings, or anything.

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Yes, I was about seven when I started sewing. We were taught at school, and the first thing I made was a gathered skirt.

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“From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer with a distinctive voice and uncanny ability to…

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I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school…

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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…

Carmen Busquets

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You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the…

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It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

Jasmine Guinness

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“The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld’s…

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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…

Cameron Mackintosh

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Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon.…

James Lovegrove

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“... but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up…

Adriana Trigiani

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Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat,…

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I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in…

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