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.
ALAN BRADLEYI always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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 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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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