Sandi Toksvig
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So this is why you were absentee so often?
We were given Catcher in the Rye to read, which is a slim book.
So I went home and I read it, fully prepared to discuss it the next day.
I had a discussion with my dad about it in the morning.
I went in and realized they were going to read it one word at a time all year.
So I thought, you know, I'll come back when they finished.
I'll go find something else to do.
It makes me sound like a smartass.
It makes me sound like a smartass, which is not nice.
I should have just sat there and done what they said, but I've always been impatient.
I was impatient with the rest of them to read the book.
So I used to hang out at the local theatre.
I used to hang out backstage.
Sometimes I ashamed to say I took the train up to the city.
We were in a suburb called Marmaroneck, which is a suburb of New York City, and I would take the train up and sneak into a matinee.