What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
ALAN BRADLEYI dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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 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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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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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