"Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production."
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"If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically."
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"I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more."
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"Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better"
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"Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever."
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"As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce."
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"Have confidence, do your own thing, find your talent, and work at it to be the best. And always, always have fun!"
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"Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do."
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"By not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities."
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"Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it"
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"So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth."
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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent."
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"Talent is a valued tormentor."
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"I think my greatest talent really is for friendship."
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"All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage."
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"I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. That will never waver. I always believe in my talent - always have."
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"The big talent is persistence."
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"I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me."
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"There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it."
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"If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there's nothing better than breaking through. There's no better feeling than breaking through."
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