Talent Quotes
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.
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Talent is very hot.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
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Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
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Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy,' you know? And it's really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
