Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
ALAN BRADLEYDuring a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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 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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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