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Talent Quotes
"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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"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
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"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
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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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"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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"Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that."
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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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"It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance."
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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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"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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"I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser."
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"If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt."
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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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"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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"I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser."
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"I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job."
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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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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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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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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."
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"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."
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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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"I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star."
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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
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"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
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"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."
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"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."
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