It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
ALAN BRADLEYIf poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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