Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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 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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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