J. B. Priestley Quotes
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
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But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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Money often costs too much.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
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I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
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Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing
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I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.
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Don`t promise me forever, just love me day by day.
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I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
