- Nov 07, 2020
Talent Quotes
On gifts, hard-won skill, and where talent gets spent.
These quotes treat talent as both a private gift and a public resource, one dancer describing ballet as a sacred calling, another noting how so much top talent flows into finance and law instead of helping marginalized children. See Best quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be a given that the talent and the talent agencies would line up around the broadcast pitch season first and then take whatever was still available out to cable. I hate to say it, but it's just not going down that way anymore. There are things that are bypassing the broadcast networks altogether.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an industry, when you're in the talent business, we are way too obsessed on the competition with each other and not enough with the consumer.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing to keep in mind is the incredible diversity of talent that's out there - there are so many great actors from all over Asia, from Singapore and Hong Kong to the Philippines and Mainland China, not to mention many great Asian-American actors who are eager for fun and challenging roles.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was heavily in the arts; my entire family, they're all musicians and draw. They have much more artistic talent than me!
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to come across someone who can look past an artist who is larger and just see them for the talent they are and have them be willing to invest what's necessary to make them a star.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.
- Faithfully
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Different Places
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- Nov 07, 2020