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.
ALAN BRADLEYDuring a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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 had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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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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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 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 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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