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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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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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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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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