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"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
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"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary."
"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."
"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."
"It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen."
"I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."
Explore more quotes by Sammy Davis, Jr.
"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."
"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."
"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
"Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart."
"Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not."
"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
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