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 BRADLEYMy 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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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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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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