I always woke up before the plane landed.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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 had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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