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

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

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

"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."

"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is."
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"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."

"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

"It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question."

"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."

"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."
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