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Talent Quotes
"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
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"Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent."
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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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"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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"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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"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
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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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"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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"I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser."
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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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"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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"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is."
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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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"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."
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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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"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage."
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"I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that."
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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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"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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"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best."
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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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"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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"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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"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."
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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
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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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"Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that."
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"Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was."
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"I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts."
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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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