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"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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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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"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."
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"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."
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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."
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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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"The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style."
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"Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything."
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"The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant."
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"Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today."
People

"As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad."
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"Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then."
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"In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better."
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"You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind."
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"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
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"Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?"
Humor
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