I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEYThe very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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 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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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