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 BRADLEYAnd I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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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 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 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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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