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.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Talulah Riley
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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.
Patrick Ness
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
Ian Mckellen
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Malachy McCourt
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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?
Patrick Ness
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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.
Ian Mcewan
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Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
Zig Ziglar
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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.
Ada Yonath
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
Lars Larsen
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. Priestley
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My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
C. Thomas Howell
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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
Jack Vance
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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.
W. H. Auden
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He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
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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.
Anthony Trollope
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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.
Bertrand Russell
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Benjamin Haydon
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
Daniel Boulud
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I have crazy, curly, big hair, so,if I have time to try to make myself look presentable, I usually spend it doing my hair.
Christen Press
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Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
Marc Guggenheim
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I've seen the hell these people go through.
Darrell Hammond
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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.
James Cosmo