While Wood, who is 24, might be a much younger actor, he has nonetheless been making movies for 15 years and also possesses a canny sense of himself. Elijah didn't do 'The Lord of the Rings' to become a movie star, ... Nobody knew that it would be the amazing phenomenon that it turned out to be. He loved the books and did everything he could to get the part.
Quotes about canny (8 Quotes)
Technology solutions can only go so far. It's not like the Internet is broken and these messages go out automatically. Human beings send them, and despite the atrocious spelling most of them use, often they're very canny people.
I did not go to jail to protect wrongdoing. I did not go to jail to get a large book contract or to martyr myself. Anyone who thinks I would spend 85 days in jail as a canny career move knows nothing about jail and nothing about me.
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover... refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.
I will be guided by chief executive Martin Bain and chairman David Murray. If they say we still have to ca' canny, which I have been behind for the last three years, then we will have to go with that.
Employers are going to have to be more canny. People who might traditionally have gone to a red-brick may now just as easily go to a more modern university because the course is more interesting. So employers are going to have to head-hunt more on campus.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.