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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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Personal Development
"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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Personal Development
"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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Personal Development
"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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Personal Development
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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Personal Development
"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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Personal Development
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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Personal Development
"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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"Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it."
Fun
"Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs."
Cat
"If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued."
Talent
"You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death."
Death
"I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated."
Love
"When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke."
Interest
"In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better."
Writing
"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."
Books
"I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation."
Books
"It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them."
Humor
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