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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important to make clear, you know, that the problem with American soccer... it isn't talent.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes how do you deploy that talent in a way that minimizes waste.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think you have to have the talent, and guys have to believe in what you're doing. Everybody has to play to the end.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
I initially moved to San Francisco to become a research associate for one of the top young heart surgeons in the country. Everything that I learned in that position is that skills, talent, and expertise are transferable.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in Hollywood, there are personal descents that evoke only sad shakes of the head, especially where there's sheer, unassailable talent in the mix.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can play guitar - but I can't really. I wouldn't say I'm talented at it. I just kind of watch videos on YouTube, and I follow the instructions... OK, yeah, my hidden talent: I'm good at following instructions!
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.
- Nov 07, 2020
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.
- Great Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm most excited about traveling and shooting and spending time in L.A. I have a great talent agency there and, you know, working with my acting coach and really putting in the time and effort to transition into the acting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember some people after the Olympics that had no idea about horses would ask, 'Do you do that with the horse, or does the horse do it by itself?' I think the fact that you can make it look like you are doing nothing is a real talent. And it is such a massive reward at the end of it.
- Nov 07, 2020