Talent Quotes - Page 35

• The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Ears, Comeback, Poet

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• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  Sam Mendes

  Skills, People, Actors

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• It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

  Freddie Mercury

  Careers, Hype, Soul

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• My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Taught

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• I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

  George Michael

  Years, Needs, Wells

  "Faith in the good life" by Akin Ojumu, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2004.

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• In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

  Wilson Mizner

  Clever, Battle, Existence

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• To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

  Colin Mochrie

  Hard Work, Discipline, Dramatic

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

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• I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

  Joe Morton

  Thinking, People, Black

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• As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stars, Laughter, Squad

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Powerful, Blessed, Creativity

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• A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Names, Doe, Familiar

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

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• If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake of the defamers of the truth, refrain from writing down, speaking, or declaring it to each other? Ah! It would be too impudent to hide the talent which God has given us, we who ought to have the grace to persevere to the end. Amen!

  Marie Dentiere

  Writing, Grace, Good Woman

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• She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Natural Talent, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Feb 14, 2015

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• IT+IT=IT; Indian talent + Information technology = India Tomorrow

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Technology, India

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2013

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• As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

  Robert Breault

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Determination

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• Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

  Paulo Coelho

  Use, Being The Best, Universal

  "The Winner Stands Alone". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2008.

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• My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ambition, Expectations, Achievement

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.165, Vintage

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• ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

  Markus Zusak

  Swear, Ferocity

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

  Russell Brand

  Self, Loathing, Manage

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

  Gregory Maguire

  Skills, Waiting, Lines

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• I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Clever, Smart, Character

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• Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Roots, Blue, Paper

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• Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

  Slash

  Views, Voice, Perspective

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

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• Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Art, War, Ambition

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• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Sweet, Blood

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