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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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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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"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."
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"But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it."
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"Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself."
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"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
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"Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio."
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"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."
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"I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers."
People
"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."
Thought
"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."
Imagination
"The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now."
People
"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."
People
"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"
Dream
"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."
Being
"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."
Thought
"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."
Writing
"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
Family
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