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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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
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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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If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.
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I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it. When women are in leadership roles and gain rewards and recognition, then perhaps 'we' (women and men) can all work together in art world actions.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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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.
