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.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Not 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.
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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 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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 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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