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Talent Quotes
"I think people of lesser talent will become stars."
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"Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously."
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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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"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
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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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"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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"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 have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."
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"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."
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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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"The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater."
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"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent."
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"I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."
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"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop."
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"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."
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"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."
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"You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition."
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"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."
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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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"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
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"If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues."
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"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."
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"There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks."
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"It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well."
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"Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world."
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"One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance."
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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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"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary."
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"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."
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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."
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