Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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 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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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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 learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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It 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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