What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
ALAN BRADLEYChicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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