I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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 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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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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.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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