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I go down to my little hut, w...

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

Roald Dahl 222 quotes

I never get any protests from...

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

Roald Dahl 222 quotes

Two hours of writing fiction ...

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl 222 quotes

When I walked to school in th...

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

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To shipbrokers, coal was blac...

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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Nobody gets a nervous breakdo...

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

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'Dexter' is a very well-oiled...

'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of.

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The fine line between roaring...

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

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A writer of fiction lives in ...

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

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I was a fighter pilot, flying...

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

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I am only 8 years old, I told...

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

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If my books can help children...

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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The adult is the enemy of the...

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

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I do have a blurred memory of...

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

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A little nonsense now and the...

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

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Pear Drops were exciting beca...

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

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The writer has to force himse...

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

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I shot down some German plane...

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

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Nowadays you can go anywhere ...

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

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When you're writing a book, w...

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....