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Talent Quotes


"I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have."


"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."


"The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there."


"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."



"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."


"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."


"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."


"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."


"Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery."


"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."


"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."


"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."


"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."


"I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it."


"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best."


"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."


"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent."


"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."


"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."


"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage."


"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."


"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."


"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."


"I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts."


"It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."


"It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere."


"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."


"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."


"I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian."


"Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether."


"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."
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