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"Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was."
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"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."

"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

"Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world."

"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

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

"I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."
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"Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight."

"The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety."

"The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent."

"One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it."
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