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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More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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