If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
ALAN BRADLEYNot 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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 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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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