I would like to say a few things about that photo in 'Tatler'. I have no regrets. The article was about the 20 cleverest people in England, covered up only by the thing that makes them clever. A saxophonist, for example, had only his saxophone, and an artist, his easel. So I was covered by books.
Amanda Foreman
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Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?
Rob Delaney
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Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
Mary Beard
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Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
Jose Maria Aznar
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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Cornel West
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Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
Allison Anders
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There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
Peter Capaldi
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A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.
Ty Burrell
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
Norm MacDonald
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Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.
Mort Sahl
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If you're going to make a statement, I think you should write it in prose and make a statement. If you have characters who are mouthpieces for a point of view, then you have to be very clever about disguising it.
Kenneth Lonergan
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I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
Hugh Laurie
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
Fred Wilson
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We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with the very real question of whether we can be sustainable on this planet - whether or not, in fact, we can endure.
David Grinspoon
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Billy Wilder
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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.
Al Yankovic
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I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
Sayed Kashua
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Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
Lech Walesa
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No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
Gene Roddenberry
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
Yoko Ono
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice Leconte
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I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
Jack Dee
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