Talent Quotes
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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If your dreams are bigger than your talent, work harder. If your talent is bigger than your dreams, dream bigger.
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He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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The big talent is persistence.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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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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When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.
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I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.
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God gave me the ability, so why not? Go out there and play for Him. Maximize the talent He gave you.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
