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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Love

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Want

"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
Relationship

"If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away."
Time

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age

"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
Talent

"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing

"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
Friendship

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
Love
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