And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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 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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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 was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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They 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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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