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Talent Quotes
"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."
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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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"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"
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"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
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"The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise."
"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
"He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable."
"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."
"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
"I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could."
"It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance."
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."
"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
"Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent."
"I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have."
"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."
"One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance."
"Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery."
"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."
"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."
"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."
"Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse."
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