It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
ALAN BRADLEYThey were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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