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John Cleese

"I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game."

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"I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game."

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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"

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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

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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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"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."

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"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."

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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

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"They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them."

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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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"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."

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