Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahlwas a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide...
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth13 September 1916
CityCardiff, Wales
father long said
Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
children father real
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Some adults forget what it was like to be a kid,'' Burton says.
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Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
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I devised a stunt for getting myself sent back home. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop an attack of acute appendicitis.
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All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option,'' says Peter Hunt, children's literature professor at Cardiff University.
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And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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I began to realise that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms, and they took their inventing very seriously.
secret
...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
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Two rights don't equal a left.