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'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

Jim Beaver

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Jim Beaver
American - Actor
Born: August 12, 1950

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My brother and sister are smarter than me. But I'm the most successful because I've been given opportunities that they never had.

Angela Rayner

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Rob Lowe

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

Orson Scott Card

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James Van Der Beek

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Whitney Tilson

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Nicole Maines

I actually never acted on "Deadwood." I have meetings all the time where people look at my IMDb page and see that I played the part of "Accounting Clerk" on Deadwood. Actually, I was the accounting clerk for production of "Deadwood."

Anthony Jeselnik

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Frank Sinatra

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Ruben Blades

I think Americans are a lot smarter than many give them credit for.

David Muir

These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for.

Dean Devlin

What could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk.

Rush Limbaugh

By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.

John Logan

It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.

Elvis Presley

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