Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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I 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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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