I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
ALAN BRADLEYNot 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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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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