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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

~A. A. Milne

Topics: Anywhere Applause Arranging Beds Clever Entertainment Envy Gift Greater Laughter Limited Lot Much Must Natural Powers Setting Some Those Tribute Us View Welcome Which Whose

Keywords: Appealing Classy Comfortable I See Myself See Sexy Very You


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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Clever Clever People Journalists Lawyers Now People Really Want

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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: All-Powerful Being Book Clever Clues Comforted Death End Enough Find May Neatly Packaged Playing Pleasure Puzzle Reduced Revealed Rules Satisfactory Solution Something Take Through Which Why

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I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

~Abbey Clancy

Topics: Abbey Actress Always Band Clever Dream Follows Her Job Love Model Mum Never Said She Singer Teachers Total Wanted Waste

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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

~Abraham Joshua Heschel

Topics: Admire Admired Am Clever Clever People Kind Now Old People Young I Am

Keywords: Abc


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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

Topics: Amino Another Clever Code Come Forms Four Language Letters Machine Made Proteins Reads Up Very Which Dna

Keywords: Abhors


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The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

~Agyness Deyn

Topics: About Character Choosy Clever Even Fact Funny Good-Looking He Interesting Mainly Man Mind Very

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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

Topics: Candidate Clever Enough Good Idea Lot Parody Songs Think Would

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From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: About Affairs Chicago Clever Contemporary Culture Deceptive Descent Disappearance Fun Girl Gone Good Housewife Lives Lower Make Midwestern Mysterious Nasty Novel Our Own Popular Popular Culture Recognize Stark State Sublime Together Vulgar Writer Young

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I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

~Alan Thicke

Topics: Always Clever Creates Degree Expectations Experience Feels Felt Improv Live Looks More Raises Separation Television Than You

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