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Talent Quotes
"It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere."
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"I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it."
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"My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title."
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"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
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"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
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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 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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"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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"I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have."
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"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."
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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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"I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality."
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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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"I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball."
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"There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy."
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"You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill."
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"I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could."
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"The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there."
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"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
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"If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow."
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"Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen."
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"I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser."
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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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"There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen."
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"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
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"I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."
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"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."
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"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."
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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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"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
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