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

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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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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

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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.

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

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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

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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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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

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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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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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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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