I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEYDuring a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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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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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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