"If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything."

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"If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything."

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"Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men."

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"I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life."

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"A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised."

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"But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost."

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"I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction."

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"I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me."

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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."

John Wooden, American Coach

Talent, Experience

"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

Talent, Pressure

"I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job."

Roger Ailes, American Businessman

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"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Talent, Genius

"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."

Mary Kay Ash, American Businessman

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"Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent."

Kevyn Aucoin, American Artist

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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

James A. Baldwin, American Author

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