The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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