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Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

John Sayles

Money

Cleverness

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cleverness

Value

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Act

Being

Cleverness

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Leon Kass

Cleverness

Limits

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.