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Talent Quotes
"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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"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
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"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
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"I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting."
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"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent."
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"Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man."
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"It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen."
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"In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts."
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"The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it."
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"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."
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"I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either."
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"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."
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"The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something."
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"Always let your talent and tenacity do the talking. Never your tantrums or sense of self righteousness or entitlement. For it is your talent and tenacity that will carve out, shape and seal your possibilities and destiny."
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"It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't."
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"It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise."
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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
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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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"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
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"If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt."
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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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"Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity."
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"I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship."
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"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."
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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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"The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows."
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"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
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"Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making."
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"I think people of lesser talent will become stars."
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