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Talent Quotes
"The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset."
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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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"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent."
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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 artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."
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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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"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is."
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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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"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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"Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent."
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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 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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"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."
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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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"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best."
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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 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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"Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate 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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"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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"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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"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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"How become a writer? Naturally."
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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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"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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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
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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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"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 was not rare; the ability to survive having it was."
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