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"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary."

"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."

"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."

"It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen."

"I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."
Explore more quotes by John Cleese

"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."

"God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered."

"If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth."

"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."

"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."

"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."
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