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I believe in a glamorous life-style, the power to explore different hues of Vivo-night talent escapade stitched abroad.
Author:
Mother Monster - Lady Gaga
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I think having heart is essential, and it outweighs talent and skill when push came to shove.
Author:
The British Songstress - Adele Adkins
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Remove those shadows of doubt and showcase the sunlight of your talents to the world.
Author:
Mother Monster - Lady Gaga
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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People will always talk, but I enjoy being who I am, cause nearly word after I lie prophecy...
Author:
Mother Monster - Lady Gaga
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Spontaneous mastery often basks in flexibility, threading intuitive lies with truths shared, dynamically breathing art into the margins where intent halts, stitching moments of furiously adaptive genius.
Author:
Ada Sinclair
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Mastery elucidates itself not through incessant practice but within moments unstructured by intent, coming alive in carefree exploration.
Author:
Carter Sheldon
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Sometimes, our greatest achievements lie not in the hours we meticulously untangle from lessons learned, but in the sighs shared thus suddenly discovering skill throughout forgotten corners of 'could be me.'
Author:
Elara Fenwick
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Spontaneous skill mastery often stems from the murmurings of our subconscious muse, picking moments of thirsting engagement to wield idle spark into shimmering legend.
Author:
Ariadne Whittaker
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Within the chaos of spur-of-the-minute inspiration lies the path to forgotten expertise--where passion ignites practice and rush resurrects mastery.
Author:
Addis Gray
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Mastery quietly emerges at the intersection of flight and failure; it's a delicate dance where minutes can become decades beneath consciousness' ocean.
Author:
Elena Faust
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Sometimes, mastery blooms unexpectedly in the soil of curiosity, revealing a hidden talent until then slow to awaken.
Author:
Elena Ramirez
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Skills linger in the shadows of desperation until illuminating paths lead them into brilliance through authentic expression.
Author:
Aeris Cloverdale
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Mastery doesn't always demand practice, sometimes it simply arrives as a celebration of hidden potential blooming under the right conditions.
Author:
Elara Mendez
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Knowledge sees continuity, while unplanned creation leaps. It's through the guise of the unknown that passion rapids into fluent artistry.
Author:
Maeve Grey
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Skill paints itself beautifully, sometimes second by second, from effortless artistry known unto both the quiet yearnings of persistence and the revolutionary magic of inspired instinct.
Author:
Chloe Reynolds
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True mastery whispers intrinsically from the chaos of creativity, birthed not from practice but from a heart indifferent to barriers.
Author:
Clara Leminski
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Like hidden light flickering within shapeless silence, spontaneous mastery reveals the deliberate perfection in chaotic ventures.
Author:
Clara Jenkin
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In the quiet frenzy of earnest instinct lies the unlikely incubator of skill; long forged from quiet passion before expressed in a moment of serendipitous art.
Author:
Clara Multmore
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A nap is my hidden talent, highlight it on my resume in the skills section
Author:
Hannah Smith
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Just because you rock at karaoke doesn't mean you're ready for American Idol.
Author:
Melanie Fernandez
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Talent is a lot cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the succesfful one is a lot of hard work.
Author:
Stephen King
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Success is not about always winning, but never giving up
Author:
Serena Williams
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Genius is more about hard work than talent.
Author:
Angela Duckworth
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Success is not just about talent, it's also about perseverance and passion.
Author:
Emma Watson
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Author:
Stephen King
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Success is not defined by the talents you possess, but by the perseverance to cultivate them.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is more about persistence than talent.
Author:
Jennifer Williams
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Be so good they can't ignore you.
Author:
Steve Martin
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Success is not just about talent, it's about persevering through challenges and never giving up.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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Success is not achieved by one's talent alone, but by the relentless pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Michael Jordan
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Success is not just about talent, it's about perseverance and resilience.
Author:
Serena Williams
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Success is more about perseverance than talent.
Author:
Claudia Rodriguez
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Persistence fuels progress far beyond talent alone.
Author:
Gabriella Santiago
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Adversity is the whetstone of talent.
Author:
Jane Austen
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Success is not determined by one's talents but by their persistence in harnessing them.
Author:
Taylor Martinez
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The price of success is perseverance and passion, not just talent.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is where preparation and opportunity meet in the dance of determination.
Author:
Grace Nguyen
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Success is not just about talent, it's also about persistence and hard work.
Author:
Maya Johnson
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The path to success is paved with perseverance and passion, not just talent.
Author:
Amanda Rodriguez
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The only place talent comes before work is in the dictionary.
Author:
Jane Doe
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Success is not defined by your talent, but by your perseverance.
Author:
Jane Smith
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Success is not measured by the number of trophies, but by the impact you leave on others.
Author:
Michelle Rodriguez
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Success is not about how naturally talented you are, but how hard you are willing to work for it.
Author:
Emily Johnson
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Success is not merely reaching the top, but building a ladder strong enough to withstand the journey.
Author:
Samantha Cooper
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Success is not just about talent, it's about perseverance and persistence too.
Author:
Mia Robinson
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The path to success is paved with determination and curiosity, not just talent.
Author:
Amanda Smith
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Success lies in the intersections where talent and hard work meet opportunity.
Author:
Lydia Roberts
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Success isn't just about talent, it's also about perseverance and mindset.
Author:
Michelle Rodriguez
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In the pursuit of greatness, perseverance will always surpass talent.
Author:
Samantha Parker
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Success is not just about talent, but also about perseverance and dedication.
Author:
Maya Smith
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The key to success is not just talent, but the determination to elevate it to its full potential.
Author:
Sophia Jones
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Success is not just achieved by talent, but by the relentless drive to persevere through obstacles.
Author:
Michelle Zhang
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Success is not defined by talent alone, but by the hard work and dedication one puts into their craft.
Author:
Emily Song
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Success is not just about talent, but also the relentless pursuit of improvement.
Author:
Emily Smith
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In the quest for success, remember that perseverance can often unlock the door that talent alone cannot open.
Author:
Jessica Zhang
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Success is not defined by where you stand as much as how you dance in the spotlight of it all.
Author:
Mia Johnson
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The road to success is paved with perseverance and determination, not just talent alone.
Author:
Sophia Roberts
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Success is not just about talent, but also the relentless pursuit of your goals.
Author:
Catherine Smith
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Success is not just about talent, it's also about persistence and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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Success is not just about talent, but the perseverance to mastering your craft.
Author:
Sophia Roberts
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Be so good at your craft that your work becomes art.
Author:
Samantha Knight
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Winners embrace hard work and seek the challenges as opportunities to hone their skills.
Author:
Serena Williams
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Success is not just about talent, but also about perseverance and heart.
Author:
Amelia Johnson
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Don't be afraid to chase your dreams, even if they seem out of reach. You never know what hidden talents you possess until you take that leap of faith.
Author:
Emily Jones
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Success is not just about talent, but also about consistency and resilience.
Author:
Sarina Martinez
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Success is not just about talent, but also about perseverance and grit.
Author:
Emma Smith
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Greatness is not achieved through talent alone; it is unlocked through perseverance and dedication.
Author:
Juliette Barnes
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
Author:
Don Zimmer
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Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
Author:
Neil Young
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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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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.
Author:
Carl Yastrzemski
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I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.
Author:
Jane Wyman
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
Author:
Frances Wright
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I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
Author:
Fay Wray
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I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
Author:
Bernie Worrell
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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Author:
John Wooden
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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
Author:
John Wooden
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Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
Author:
John Wooden
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If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Author:
Bern Williams
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I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.
Author:
Alvin Williams
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That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.
Author:
Margaret Whiting
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There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
Author:
Bryan White
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It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.
Author:
David Wells
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
Author:
Felix Weldon
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I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
Author:
Mike Watt
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
Author:
Sam Waterston
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It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.
Author:
Gedde Watanabe
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Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
Author:
Lew Wasserman
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Talent will come out.
Author:
Ray Walston
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I still have my talent to produce and direct.
Author:
Marc Wallice
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My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
Author:
Herschel Walker
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The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.
Author:
Robert Wagner
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I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'
Author:
Jon Voight
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As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
Author:
Shania Twain
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They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.
Author:
Ike Turner
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I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
Author:
Bess Truman
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I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
Author:
James Tobin
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I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
Author:
Mike Thompson
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There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.
Author:
John Thompson
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My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.
Author:
Keith Thibodeaux
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But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
Author:
Wislawa Szymborska
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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.
Author:
Wanda Sykes
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.
Author:
Kristen Stewart
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A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
Author:
Isaac Stern
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I think people of lesser talent will become stars.
Author:
Howard Stern
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Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
Author:
Neal Stephenson
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It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
Author:
Gwen Stefani
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
Author:
Bart Starr
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Author:
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
Author:
Layne Staley
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When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!
Author:
Jeremy Spencer
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.
Author:
Ronnie Spector
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I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
Author:
John Sousa
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Author:
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Author:
Roy Smith
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Author:
Logan Smith
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People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Author:
Frank Sinatra
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Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.
Author:
George Simpson
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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.
Author:
Paul Simon
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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
Author:
William Simms
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If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.
Author:
Bobby Sherman
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Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.
Author:
Bobby Sherman
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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
Author:
Alan Shepard
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You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
Author:
Alan Shepard
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Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
Author:
Sidney Sheldon
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The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.
Author:
Robert Shea
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
Author:
Robert Service
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Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Author:
Rod Serling
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?
Author:
Monica Seles
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Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.
Author:
Compay Segundo
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In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.
Author:
David Schwartz
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Talent works, genius creates.
Author:
Robert Schumann
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
Author:
Francoise Sagan
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If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Author:
Nolan Ryan
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I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.
Author:
Kurt Russell
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The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
Author:
Peter Rubens
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Author:
Joseph Roux
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.
Author:
Cesar Romero
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There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
Author:
Kevin Rollins
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No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Author:
Tony Robbins
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Talent is being able to please people.
Author:
Marty Robbins
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Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
Author:
Antoine Rivarol
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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Author:
Antoine Rivarol
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I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
Author:
Martin Ritt
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You can never have enough talent.
Author:
Pat Riley
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Author:
Jules Renard
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During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.
Author:
Frederick Reines
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Detroit is full of talent.
Author:
Martha Reeves
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Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
Author:
Robert Redford
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
Author:
Norman Raine
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Author:
Quintilian
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
Author:
J. Priestley
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I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
Author:
Richard Price
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He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.
Author:
Nick Price
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.
Author:
Joan Plowright
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Author:
Marge Piercy
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Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun.
Author:
Mary Pierce
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Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
Author:
John Petit-Senn
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For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
Author:
Itzhak Perlman
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Author:
Anna Pavlova
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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Author:
Anna Pavlova
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Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.
Author:
Sean Paul
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At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Author:
Gordon Parks
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It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.
Author:
Bruce Paltrow
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
Author:
Leo Ornstein
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I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.
Author:
Alex O'Loughlin
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When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
Author:
Hakeem Olajuwon
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The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
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I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.
Author:
Donald O'Connor
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Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
Author:
Carroll O'Connor
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Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
Author:
Alex North
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The talent is in the choices.
Author:
Robert Niro
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
Author:
Jack Nicklaus
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Author:
Jack Nicklaus
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
Author:
Eddie Murphy
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
Author:
Kate Mulgrew
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That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
Author:
William Morton
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
Author:
Samuel Morton
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
Author:
Toni Morrison
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For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
Author:
Richard Morris
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Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.
Author:
Richard Morris
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.
Author:
Colin Mochrie
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In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada.
Author:
Dannii Minogue
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It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.
Author:
Roger Miller
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Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.
Author:
Ed Miliband
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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
Author:
Pat Metheny
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I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Author:
Ethel Merman
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It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Author:
Freddie Mercury
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Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
Author:
Larry Merchant
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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.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
Author:
Audrey Meadows
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You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
Author:
Joel McHale
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The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.
Author:
John McEnroe
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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
Author:
Anne McCaffrey
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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
Author:
Jose Marti
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To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Author:
Jose Marti
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Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Author:
Jose Marti
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Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Author:
Wynton Marsalis
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Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
Author:
Dan Marino
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Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.
Author:
Greil Marcus
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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
Author:
Marya Mannes
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
Author:
Barry Mann
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Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Author:
Nelson Mandela
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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.
Author:
Cheryl Lynn
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Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
Author:
George Lucas
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You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.
Author:
Ernst Lubitsch
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Author:
Sophia Loren
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Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.
Author:
Ron Livingston
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Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
Author:
Richard Linklater
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
Author:
Jerry Lewis
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
Author:
George Lewes
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There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.
Author:
Lisa Leslie
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Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
Author:
Alan Lerner
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If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
Author:
Hugh Leonard
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I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.
Author:
Ivan Lendl
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An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
Author:
Tom Lehrer
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I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
Author:
Joshua Lederberg
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
Author:
Ferdinand Lassalle
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I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.
Author:
Angela Lansbury
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The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.
Author:
Artie Lange
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
Author:
Veronica Lake
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Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
Author:
Jacques Lacan
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Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.
Author:
Gene Krupa
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When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.
Author:
Gene Krupa
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There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.
Author:
John Kricfalusi
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I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
Author:
Kathe Kollwitz
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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
Author:
Donald Knuth
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I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.
Author:
Jurgen Klinsmann
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
Author:
Sally Kirkland
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Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
Author:
Klaus Kinski
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Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Author:
Stephen King
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He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
Author:
Ben King
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Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.
Author:
Jason Kidd
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Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
Author:
Jean Kerr
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Author:
John Kennedy
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We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
Author:
Fanny Kemble
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Author:
Carl Jung
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I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.
Author:
Mike Judge
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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Author:
Michael Jordan
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Author:
Erica Jong
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The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
Author:
Franklin Jones
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But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.
Author:
Norman Jewison
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God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
Author:
Sarah Jewett
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One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.
Author:
Ron Jaworski
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Hope is a talent like any other.
Author:
Storm Jameson
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
Author:
Victoria Jackson
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Author:
Washington Irving
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.
Author:
Isabelle Huppert
