If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
ALAN BRADLEYOne that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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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 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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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