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Talent Quotes
"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent."
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"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."
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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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"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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"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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"Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity."
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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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"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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"One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
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"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."
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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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"The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent."
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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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"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."
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"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."
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"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."
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"Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent."
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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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"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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"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 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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"It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere."
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"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."
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"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."
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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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"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
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