I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
ALAN BRADLEYAs I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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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 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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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