During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 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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