"Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat."

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Source : Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.83, Delacorte Press

Alan Bradley

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“I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.”
“This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.”
“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”
“The official ideology [of Poland] is Marxism-Leninism, which no one openly admits to believing. For Marx expressed the German view, and Lenin the Russian one, and the meeting of these particular minds has always spelled Polish ruin.”
“The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.”
“But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.”

Source : James Blish (2017). “A Case of Conscience”, p.128, Open Road Media
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.”

Source : "1.0 Is the Loneliest Number" by Matt Mullenweg, ma.tt. November 9, 2010.
“I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.”

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