The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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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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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 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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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 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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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