"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."

Talent, Now, Rules, Want

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

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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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."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"He has tongue of a writer."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change."

Change, People, Life

"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."

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"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."

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"I want to write a book which is the history of comedy."

History, Comedy, Want

"I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat."

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"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh."

People, Trying

"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."

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"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

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