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Talent Quotes
"The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there."
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"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
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"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."
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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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"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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"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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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
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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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"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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"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
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"I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'"
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"Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent."
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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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"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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"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary."
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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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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
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"Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that."
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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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"I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction."
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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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"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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"It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."
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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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"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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"It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere."
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"When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
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"Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse."
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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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