Talent Show Quotes

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  Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Power, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

  Marco Pierre White

  Opportunity, People, Talent

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

  JJ Feild

  Monday, Winning, Next

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• I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

  Susan Ann Sulley

  Thinking, People, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.

  Chuck Barris

  Simple, Ideas, Scams

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• I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

  Ishmael

  Brother, Hip Hop, Gone

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• I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Voice, People, Frustrated

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• I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

  James Brown

  Years, Saws, Indiana

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• She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

  David Nicholls

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Diners

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Years, Cameras

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• He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this?

  David Nicholls

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Judging, Want, Our Society

  "Melissa Etheridge: Mission Possible" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2011.

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• I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Cute, Hands, People

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• When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

  Trey Parker

  Blood, Play, Fake

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• I understand why people do reality TV talent shows, I just don't think it's good for music. It's karaoke. What three people on a panel perceive as being great vocally, I think, isn't necessarily right.

  Susan Ann Sulley

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars,' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.

  Josh Henderson

  Drama, Reality, Careers

  "Hot Topic: Josh Henderson" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. June 13, 2012.

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• God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Running, Home, People

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• I’m going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I’d never lip-synch. It’s just not me.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Real, Going Out, Lips

  "Ashlee Simpson takes 'SNL' lip sync blame". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. October 29, 2004.

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• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Hero, Reality

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• I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

  Josh Groban

  Song, Boys, Talent

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• I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

  Cheryl Lynn

  Real, Book, Stuff

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• I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

  Barry Mann

  Boys, Mountain, Talent

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• I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead!

  Jacklyn Zeman

  Passion, Nurse, Dancing

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• Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."

  David Copperfield

  Teacher, Kids, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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