To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEYI always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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