- Great
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- 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
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I wasn't really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Everwood' I think provides a unique feeling, an emotional experience. And other shows on TV don't have the acting talent to do that. Each one of our actors can do a serious scene and a humorous scene, and can do it all within the same sequence. They can go from a heartbreaking moment to a humorous moment.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ingrid Bergman made an enormous impression on me. I couldn't imagine where that kind of acting talent came from.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably my sister was the only one to tell me that I was good singer until 'America's Got Talent.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.
- Classic Example
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020