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 BRADLEYTV 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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 love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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