Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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