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Neal Stephenson

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

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

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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."

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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."

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"I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent."

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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

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

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"You can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?..."

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"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."

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"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

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

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"I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."

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"It is the fate of operating systems to become free."
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