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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.
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- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
- East Asian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's bang the gong and chime for more Asian superheroes. The gatekeepers can certainly open the door - there's a wealth of East Asian talent around, and that needs to be tapped into.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
- Good Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
- Inspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
- Amazing Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried out for 'The Voice,' and I also tried out for 'America's Got Talent,' and both them, like, reached out to me. I had, like, little singing video on YouTube, and they were like, 'Come out for an audition.' I did, and I got a callback for both of them, actually, and, uh, didn't get anything after that. I was so heartbroken. But look at me now!
- Nov 07, 2020
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists, especially physicists, we're presumptuous and think we can do everything better than everybody else. And one thing that I realized early is, I had some talent managing and organizing things - you know, some people are better organizers than others - but why should I reinvent the wheel?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020