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Talent Quotes
"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary."
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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."
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"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent."
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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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"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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"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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"They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them."
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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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"I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship."
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"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."
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"Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent."
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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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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."
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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 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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"I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser."
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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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"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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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is."
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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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"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
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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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"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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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
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"If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt."
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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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"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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"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
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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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"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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"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent."
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