Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
ALAN BRADLEYIt 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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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 was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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