"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."

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"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."

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"So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort."

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"Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously."

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"Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity."

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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."

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"An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons."

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"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person."

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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability."

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"I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability."

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"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."

School

"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."

Creativity

"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."

Writing

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."

Movies

"I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets."

Work

"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."

Family

"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."

Money

"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."

Thought

"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."

Time

"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."

Film