During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
ALAN BRADLEYI grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
-
-
If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
ALAN BRADLEY -
I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
ALAN BRADLEY -
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
ALAN BRADLEY -
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
ALAN BRADLEY -
And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
ALAN BRADLEY -
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
ALAN BRADLEY