James Cosmo Quotes
I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
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I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
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Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
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DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
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I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
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He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
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I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.
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We found that travel, especially online travel, has been quite resistant to economic cycles.
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
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I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.
