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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."

"I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered."

"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person."

"Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization."

"Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps."

"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."

"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."

"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
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