Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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.
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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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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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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 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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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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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.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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