I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEYCompared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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 out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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