I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
ALAN BRADLEYThey 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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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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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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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 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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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 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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