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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

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

Quotes by Al Franken

Born
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Nov 07, 2020

Most Saiyans are born with a talent for battle, but they still need to be taught the trick behind flying and stuff like that.

Quotes by Akira Toriyama

Distribute
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Nov 07, 2020

Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extremely loyal as a people, and I think Hollywood is starting to recognize that. It's very rare for a major studio to nationally distribute a film with Latino talent, not only in front of the camera, but also behind the camera.

Quotes by Aimee Garcia

Food
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Nov 07, 2020

Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.

Quotes by Aileen Lee

Effort
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Nov 07, 2020

There needs to be more deliberate effort on the part of folks at VC firms to bring in a more diverse team of talent. You have to make a more concerted effort to bring in people who are different and who may not be in your network.

Quotes by Aileen Lee

Nov 07, 2020

It's always true, and in all the arts. When one guy's terrific, there will be a lot of other terrific guys around. And this last decade, the '90s, has been a period of very low talent.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.

Others get more specific about craft, arguing that a genre like rock only becomes interesting when real talent is actually involved. Browse Great and Good quotes for more.

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