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.
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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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