Talent Quotes - Page 26

• Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

  Tom Felton

  People, Actors, Normal

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• The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

  Janusz Kaminski

  People, Directors, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• [Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.

  William Monahan

  Teacher, Artist, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Exhibitions, Aversion

  Source: collider.com

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• Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

  Martha Stewart

  Business, Integrity, Work

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• The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Writing, Long Walks

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• Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

  Oscar Levant

  Baby, Sleep, Wool

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• One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

  Colin Powell

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• I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

  Jackie Evancho

  America, Looks, Look Up

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• Being a servant will take you places where your talent will never take you.

  Tommy Tenney

  Servant

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• There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that.

  Malik Yoba

  Looks, Chance, Shows

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Thinking, Management, Stage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.

  Meryl Streep

  Drama, College, Yale

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

  Wanda Sykes

  Down And, Stage, Sat

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• When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.

  Delphine Arnault

  Shoes, Giving, Advice

  "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.

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• The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and, whatever his talents might be, in a far less perfect manner.

  Paul Delaroche

  Photography, Perfect, Might

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• We'll go back and listen to some 70's music. Just everything. I guess the main thing is that we listen to creative guys, male or female either one. Just people that have got great talent and we're able to say, 'man, that is unbelievable.

  Eddie Montgomery

  Men, People, Creative

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• The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

  Donnell Rawlings

  Strong, Skills, Names

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• Hard work is greater than lazy talent.

  Chris French

  Hard Work, Lazy, Greater

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• If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.

  Don Alias

  Apollo, Crowds, Like You

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• I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Labels, Music Business

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• The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Feel Better, Artist, Yield

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• Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.

  Rick Astley

  Tea, May, Sugar

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

  Lauren Bacall

  Real, People, Real Talent

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• India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Nice, India, Successors

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