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Talent Quotes
"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."
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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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"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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"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."
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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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"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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"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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"It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere."
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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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"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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"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
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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'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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"Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen."
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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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"I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball."
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"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of 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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"Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility."
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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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"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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"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
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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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"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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"The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there."
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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 regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."
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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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