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"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."
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"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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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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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
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"Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."
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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
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"I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard."
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"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
Hollywood
"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."
Talent
"Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."
Comedy
"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
Entertainment
"I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?"
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