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Talent Quotes
"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 really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman."
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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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"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
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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'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."
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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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"As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful."
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"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."
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"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."
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"I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it."
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"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
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"My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title."
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"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
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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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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."
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"The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater."
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"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
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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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"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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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
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"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical 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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"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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"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."
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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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"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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"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
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"The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset."
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"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary."
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