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“The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.”

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Author:Nina Jacobson

“I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.”

World Want Doe Enough Realizing Smart

Author:Darren Lynn Bousman

“When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try to make up in quantity and complexity what they lack in quality. That's bullshit! They're just hiding their bullshit!”

People Want Trying Book Sound Quality Smart Add Sentences Complexity Hiding Quantity Bullshit Paragraph Syllables

Author:Robert McKee

“There are many things you can point to as proof that the human is not smart. But my personal favorite would have to be that we needed to invent the helmet. What was happening, apparently, was that we were involved in a lot of activities that were cracking our heads. We chose not to avoid doing those activities but, instead, to come up with some sort of device to help us enjoy our head-cracking lifestyles.”

Humans Helping Enjoy Needed Involved Activity Smart Happenings Come Up Proof Lifestyle Devices Helmet

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Remember that Cosby show where he harrassed the children? Well I put on a little suit and because I am so small they invited me on but nobody was laughing at my jokes. I guess I'm just, too, particularly smart for them.”

Wells Children Littles Shows Remember Laughing Smart Jokes Suits Invited Cosby Show

Author:Thom Yorke

“I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Jennifer McLagan's Fat is a smart, thoughtful book that ultimately asks us to understand our food better.”

Book Today Asks Literature Smart Cooking Add Fats Thoughtful Distinctive Jennifer Cookbook

Author:Michael Ruhlman

“A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.”

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Author:Jerry Pournelle

“A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.”

Way Firsts Given Figures Smart Tasks Machines Worth It

Book:The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

Source: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

“I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a "career builder," I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with "Caprica," the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“If the people in Europe are SOOOOOO smart, how come so many of them can't seem to locate the deodorant, huh?”

People Ifs Seems Smart Europe Deodorant

Author:Dave Barry

“Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.”

Men Fool Smart Interpretation Smart Man

Author:Colin Chapman

“What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place.”

Ifs Writing Trying Firsts Order Smart Down And Impress Waiter

Author:Aaron Karo

“I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.”

World Different Whole Party Audience Ready Lucky Smart Theater Educated Atmosphere Broadway

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.”

People Way Jobs Goal Focus Smart Accomplish Ceo Resumes Smart People Roadblock

Author:John Fairclough

“Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.”

People Way Years Long Hard Numbers Smart Strings Zero Impressive Smart People Very Smart Hard Way

Author:Warren Buffett

“I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.”

People Thinking Streets Wall Smart Tough Myth Aggressive Greedy Quick Thinking

Author:Ben Stein

“Jews were, are, and will remain ideological dope dealers smart enough not to smoke their own stash. They sell equality heroin to you, but they never inject it themselves.”

Enough Smart Sells Jew Smoke Ideological Heroin Dealer Dope

Author:Alex Linder

“I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, What do you have in lingerie? She says, More than you'll ever have!”

Said Hate Smart I Hate Clerks Lingerie

Author:Phyllis Diller

“In this country, a smart leader is suspect. That's just the way it is. Even George Bush's father, who was a lot smarter than the son, had to sort of prove that he wasn't that bright.”

Way Country Father Leader Son Prove Smart Suspects Smarter

Author:Bill Maher

“I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn`t go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were.”

Looks Parent Realizing Smart Dumb

Author:Paul Reiser

“I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me. But I couldn't write a space movie if you put a gun to my head.”

Ifs Writing Enough Happens Space Smart Gun Space Movie

Author:Paul Reiser

“My comedy is not mine. It's a gift. I'm not that smart.”

Comedy Mines Smart

Author:Tim Allen

“I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I decided that this company is my best resource. Patagonia now exists to put into practice all the things that smart people are saying we have to do not only to save the planet but to save the economy.”

People Hands Wanted Company Practice Economy Planets Smart Resources Decided Businessman Smart People Craftsman Save The Planet Patagonia

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.”

Thinking Way Moments Can Do Smart Take Me Sprint

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn't going to get her anywhere and it didn't. I wasn't even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn't good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what's good in our lives, we will be all right.”

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Author:George Lopez

“Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.”

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Author:Jackie Schaffer

“I remember being in the audition with Mark [Duplass] and I remember not being able to dominate him. He's so smart and centered and grounded. I can't do what I'd normally do to someone in this situation. I can't get the upper hand in the scene. I was really impressed and excited about the possibility to work with him.”

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Author:Jackie Schaffer

“Through working with amazing people, the bar is always raised to do your own best work. I want to be a part of unique stories that are smart, heartfelt, funny and sad, and have a general sense of good quality.”

People Want Stories Quality Unique Smart Raised Bars Best Work Heartfelt Good Quality Amazing People

Author:Ari Graynor

“I have noticed a common denominator among my smart and successful single friends, who tend to over-analyze and underestimate the opposite sex far more than their peers.”

Sex Common Successful Smart Opposites Peers Underestimate Common Denominator

Author:Lauren Iungerich

“Building smart processes to streamline the workflow can make the work easier and the results more reliable, which keeps my head above water and my clients happy.”

Process Water Results Building Easier Smart Clients

Author:Mark Mason

“If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great stuff, but I definitely do want to experiment in other genres, or make films in other genres.”

Ifs Want Looks Film Artist Turns Stuff Smart Experiments Genre Snob

Author:James Wan

“Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off of, and that script was very high up there. It was a very smart, tight script. There was a lot of improv, as well, once we got to the set, but a lot of the original script was also in there.”

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Author:Justin Theroux

“I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style.”

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Author:George Lucas

“I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really smart, and tell your story that way." So, for me, it's about never assuming that they will go away because they're not entertained.”

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Author:Veena Sud

“We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going into this venture thinking that the audience is really smart and really wants to hear all the nuances of what we're saying.”

Thinking Want Stories Novel Audience Willing Pages Smart Venture Nuance Really Smart

Author:Veena Sud

“I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.”

Ifs Way I Can Stories Comedy Drama Smart Comic Genre Hook

Author:Jay Roach

“I really like the director [for Weeds]. I don't know if you've spoken to him yet but he's really, really intelligent. He was just really kind when I met him and nice and really told me why I should play the part...and kind of really didn't argue with him. He's just really, really smart and assembled these really great people. I felt like he really knows how to enlist his intelligence to get you - I don't know - he's really hard to argue with I find.”

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Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I love Starship Troopers. That's really smart. I think he really could portray fascism in a comedic way. It's funny because both José [Padilha] and [Paul] Verhoeven were accused of being fascists for their movies because they had fascist leads. So, it's not going to have his tone, but there's going to be political satire in it.”

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Author:Joel Kinnaman

“I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.”

Feels Sound Talking Media Comfortable Smart

Author:Andrew VanWyngarden

“We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.”

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Author:Cristian Machado

“I like a funny girl. Smart. Talented. I like someone who is good at music - that always intrigues me.”

Girl Smart Intrigue Funny Girl

Author:Tom Felton

“I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.”

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Author:Colin Quinn

“Some dead people said smart stuff.”

People Said Stuff Smart Dead People

Author:Bob Saget

“It's smart to marry your yoga teacher so when you get divorced you know how to go down on yourself.”

Knows Know How Teacher Smart Yoga Divorced Yoga Teachers

Author:Bob Saget

“Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.”

People Social Smart Clever Shopping Really Smart

Author:Marc Jacobs

“And my daughter's too smart. She gets it watching TV. She gets it. She's five. She gets it. I... I have a smart kid; I don't want a smart kid. I'm gonna start feedin' her lead paint chips just to bring her down.”

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Author:Christopher Titus

“My mom's always saying really smart things... like, you probably heard this one, 'Why buy the cow when the milk has HPV?' Wish I'd listened to that one.”

Wish Heard Like You Mom Smart My Mom Milk Cows Really Smart

Author:Amy Schumer

“If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book on the top of every single page? Does anyone get halfway through a book, What the hell am I reading?”

Ifs Doe Book Reading Hell Pages Smart Titles Halfway

Author:Brian Regan

“Being a bigger person, whether you're male or female, in entertainment, it can hurt your chances. Because people look to you to be a so-called superstar. Perfect body, perfect figure, good looking, and smart. And larger people, we have to fit in anywhere we can and the best way we can, so to speak. The way the world looks at you at being perfect, and nobody's perfect.”

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Author:Bruce Bruce

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