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Sammy Davis, Jr.

"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."

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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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"The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it."

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"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."

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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."

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"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist."

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"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."

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"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"

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"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."

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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

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"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."

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