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.
ALAN BRADLEYOne 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 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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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 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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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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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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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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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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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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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