It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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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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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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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