Quotes by Alan Bradley - Page 1

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
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Cyanide
Poison
Ponies
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Brat
Spoiled
Spoiled Brat
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Politics
Fervent
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Belly
Belly Laughs
Laughing
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Chemistry
Toil
Vineyards
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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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Demand
Mind
Stupidity
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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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Broadcasting
Careers
Contributing
Long
People
Time Long People
Creations
Long Career
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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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Enjoy
Littles
People
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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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Politics
Lists
Thinking
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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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Christmas
Smile
Holiday
Special
Thinking
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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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Lasting
Long
Long Lasting
Short Lived
Would Be
Work Always More
Electronic
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As 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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Book
Eight
Heaven
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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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Men
Father
Military
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Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, 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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Doors
Sky
Thinking
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I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, 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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Laughing
Self
Two
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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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Elements
Insight
Millions
Teaching
Thinking
Together
Great Together Me
Edit
For Example
Great Deal
Tv And Film
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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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Brain
Enemy
Interesting
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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, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Daughter
Father
Long Ago
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Flying
Growing Up
Talking
Tired
Visiting
Family Myself Always
Ben
Dreamed
Landed
Plane
Woke
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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Inspiration
Self
Volcanoes
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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 to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Book
Children
Delighted
Father
Forbidden
Frivolous
Grandchildren
Reader
Believed
Volumes
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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. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Air
Beloved
Canada
Flew
Grandmother
Husband
Meant To Be
Victorian
Aerial
Balloon
Basket
Emigrate
Ride
Skies
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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... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Book
Character
Classic
Familiar
Fun
Reader
Identify
Types
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - 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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Knowing
Real
Together
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. 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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Book
Canada
Filled
Grandmother
Great Love
Magazines
Newspapers
Reader
Love Family Great
Developed
Piles
Surrounded
Transplanted
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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. 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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Children
Ideas
Writing
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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. 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.
Alan Bradley / Writer
Long Ago
Oatmeal
Thinking
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