Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
ALAN BRADLEYI fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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