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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

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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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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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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 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.

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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

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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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The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.

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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

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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.

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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

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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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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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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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