Talent Quotes
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
Garth Brooks -
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
Carl Yastrzemski
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
Malin Akerman -
Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
Hack Wilson -
I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
Mamie Van Doren -
My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto.
Cote de Pablo -
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
Irrfan Khan
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
Sam Waterston -
The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
Paige Craig -
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian -
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
Olivia De Havilland -
I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
Tina Weymouth -
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
Barry Mann -
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
Natalia Vodianova -
Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.
Anthony Quinn -
I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
Joanne Rowling
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High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
Nancy Gibbs -
For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand -
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.
Madeleine Peyroux -
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?'
Raekwon