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Talent Quotes
"I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman."
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"I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts."
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"He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better."
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"Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent."
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"One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance."
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"During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known."
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"The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent."
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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
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"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."
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"When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected."
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"I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world."
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"It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian."
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"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
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"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
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"I think people of lesser talent will become stars."
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"That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song."
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"The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent."
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"My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too."
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"If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it."
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"I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could."
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"At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it."
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"I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
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"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
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