Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
ALAN BRADLEYOne of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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 poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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