Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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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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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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It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
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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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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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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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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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The big talent is persistence.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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We as producers need to keep an eye on things and make sure we're doing great stuff, which is sometimes easy to do because of the talent we have, and sometimes not so easy.
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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Hopefully I don't annoy people too much.
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I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
