Clever Quotes
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My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
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I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.
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I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.
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There was an attraction at first that Mr Baldwin should not be clever. But when he forever sentimentalises about his own stupidity, the charm is broken.
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But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.
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When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.
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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
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There is nothing Clever about not being Happy.
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You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
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I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it's just an attempt to seem clever.
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
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Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
