Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
ALAN BRADLEYMy grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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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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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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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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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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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