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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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 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 you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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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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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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