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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."

"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."

"I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian."

"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
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"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."

"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."

"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."

"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
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