Tony Bradman quote: "I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel."

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TONY BRADMAN

Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson have both been writing for a long time. In 30 years, will write...
TONY BRADMAN

'All Quiet on the Western Front' is just sort of there isn't it? Every single trope of t...
TONY BRADMAN

These days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children's book is rather like the gho...
TONY BRADMAN

Once the world has been created, the fantasy author still has to bring the story's characters to...
TONY BRADMAN

There are several occupational hazards for book reviewers, chief among them being the Curse of the J...
TONY BRADMAN

If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won't matter how incredibl...
TONY BRADMAN

I wake up every morning and thank God I?m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with p...
GODFREY BRADMAN

I wake up every morning and thank God I’m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with...
GODFREY BRADMAN

If there is a threat to the game of cricket, that threat lies in the first class arena. One day cric...
DONALD BRADMAN

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.
DONALD BRADMAN

Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But wh...
TONY BENNETT

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action...
TONY ROBBINS

The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It...
TONY DUNGY

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
TONY ROBBINS

As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventua...
TONY CARDENAS

Be a doer and not a critic.
TONY BLAIR

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
TONY ROBBINS

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.
TONY BENNETT

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
TONY ROBBINS

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
TONY ROBBINS

There's always a way - if you're committed.
TONY ROBBINS

Live with passion!
TONY ROBBINS

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
TONY ROBBINS

I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That's a double whammy there. I constantly have to check...
TONY CARDENAS

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
TONY ROBBINS

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast a...
TONY BENN

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong allian...
TONY BLAIR

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they ...
TONY ROBBINS

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better ...
TONY ROBBINS

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
TONY ROBBINS

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
TONY ROBBINS

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It...
TONY IOMMI

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faith...
TONY BLAIR

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.
TONY CURTIS

If I was called back to 'Grand Budapest 2,' a prequel or whatever, I'm there. I'm th...
TONY REVOLORI

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeli...
TONY SNOW

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has...
TONY KUSHNER

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
TONY BENN

There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. ...
TONY DANZA

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an e...
TONY PARSONS

Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece o...
TONY TAN

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.
TONY LEMA

The studio are making a lot of good noises about 'Bunker Hill;' so it would be great if that...
TONY CURRAN

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it'...
TONY BENN

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who...
TONY ABBOTT

For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one c...
TONY CARDENAS

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that r...
TONY STEWART

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when...
TONY HILLERMAN

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Gre...
TONY KUSHNER

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspir...
TONY DORSETT

I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Br...
TONY RANDALL

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
TONY ABBOTT

I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart&...
TONY VINCENT

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going...
TONY DUNGY

Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly.
TONY VINCENT

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any carto...
TONY KUSHNER

Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wa...
TONY BUZAN

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equale...
TONY CAMPOLO

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like ...
TONY BENN

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
TONY BLAIR

I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen the...
TONY FADELL

Because the perpetrators typically have little understanding as to why they are sexually assaulting ...
TONY MARTENS

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling
TONY DELISO

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
TONY DELISO

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fu...
TONY CAMPOLO

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
TONY BENN

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
TONY BENN

I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr....
TONY BENN

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
TONY BUZAN

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right ti...
TONY BUZAN

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
TONY BLAIR

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire...
TONY DORSETT

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
TONY RICHARDSON

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in th...
TONY MARTIN

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an...
TONY BENNETT

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
TONY ALESANDRA

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangero...
TONY BENN

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference ...
TONY BENN

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to ob...
TONY BUZAN

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've...
TONY HANCOCK

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment...
TONY BENN

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
TONY BENN

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
TONY BENNETT

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: ...
TONY CAMPOLO

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.
TONY BRIGHT

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.
TONY ALESANDRA

Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with y...
TONY DORSETT

All war represents a failure of diplomacy
TONY BENN

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
TONY ARATA

Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dre...
TONY ARATA

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to e...
TONY SCHWARTZ

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also le...
TONY GOLDWYN

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those...
TONY JUDT

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more ti...
TONY BENN

In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing s...
TONY HAWK

What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus...
TONY CAMPOLO

I plan to work my utmost for Singaporeans, whatever be their political affiliation. The presidency i...
TONY TAN

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christia...
TONY DUNGY

I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's...
TONY HAWK

During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are...
TONY MCCOY

When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussio...
TONY HAWK

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based so...
TONY CAMPOLO

Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many th...
TONY FERNANDES

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an...
TONY BENNETT

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone e...
TONY ABBOTT

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty...
TONY SNOW

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M...
TONY KUSHNER

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material we...
TONY JUDT

Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.
TONY FERNANDES

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. W...
TONY FERNANDES

When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper t...
TONY FERNANDES

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are...
TONY ABBOTT

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
TONY ROBBINS

I'm a Prada freak and I think they have great eyewear. Even though I don't need glasses, I u...
TONY VINCENT

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from ...
TONY DUNGY

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
TONY ROBBINS

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your ...
TONY DUNGY

I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do a...
TONY DANZA

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a...
TONY KUSHNER

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During th...
TONY BENNETT

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the wor...
TONY ROBBINS

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u...
TONY ROBBINS

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.
TONY RANDALL

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's dee...
TONY ROBBINS

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
TONY ROBBINS

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple...
TONY CAMPOLO

We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up... No matter how hard you hit them, you've st...
TONY DUNGY

I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the...
TONY STEWART

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the...
TONY ROBBINS

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
TONY ROBBINS

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
TONY ROBBINS

I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't...
TONY STEWART

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
TONY ROBBINS

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
TONY ROBBINS

Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device a...
TONY BATES

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief wor...
TONY CAMPOLO

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
TONY VISCONTI

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da...
TONY HALE

By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. Bu...
TONY BLAIR

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing...
TONY ROBBINS

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's...
TONY ROBBINS

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
TONY BLAIR

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never conce...
TONY ROBBINS

I'm a minor player in my own life story.
TONY WILSON

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the...
TONY BUZAN

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the...
TONY ABBOTT

I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, th...
TONY ORLANDO

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military po...
TONY SNOW

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets...
TONY BLAIR

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves ...
TONY SNOW

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our com...
TONY CARDENAS

Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... ...
TONY HAWK

When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to g...
TONY HAWK

You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games....
TONY HAWK

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other w...
TONY HAWK

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebel...
TONY HAWK

If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel lik...
TONY HAWK

Don't be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have ...
TONY HAWK

I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named...
TONY HAWK

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses...
TONY HAWK

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowb...
TONY HAWK

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.
TONY HAWK

The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, wor...
TONY HAWK

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by t...
TONY HAWK

I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ...
TONY HAWK

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more you...
TONY HAWK

Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution...
TONY HAWK

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started tra...
TONY HAWK

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
TONY HAWK

If you have a game with your name on it, you have to learn how to play.
TONY HAWK

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
TONY ROBBINS

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident bec...
TONY JAA

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to ea...
TONY ROBBINS

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws l...
TONY HOARE

I've said all along that God is in control.
TONY DUNGY

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto othe...
TONY OLLER

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English ...
TONY HILLERMAN

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
TONY GILROY

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ...
TONY ROBBINS

Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect ...
TONY CARDENAS

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t...
TONY ROBBINS

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspir...
TONY DORSETT

I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold ...
TONY FERNANDES

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that ...
TONY BLAIR

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them remove...
TONY PARSONS

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have beco...
TONY CAMPOLO

I do like the nonpartisan atmosphere here at City Hall where you can talk with the person who oppose...
TONY CARDENAS

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. Yo...
TONY CAMPOLO

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Mini...
TONY BLAIR

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, an...
TONY MCCOY

I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.
TONY OLLER

If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is ever...
TONY DUNGY

Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are ro...
TONY PARSONS

It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral speci...
TONY JUDT

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
TONY ABBOTT

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm mor...
TONY BLAIR

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital ...
TONY CAMPOLO

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the f...
TONY KUSHNER

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

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I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

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