"There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used."
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"Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age."
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"There are some bad qualities which make great talents."
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"I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself."
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"Having no talent is no longer enough."
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"Talent is a long patience."
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"People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing"
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"I don't have talent. I have tenacity."
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"What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world."
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"Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation."
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"I have no talent for certainty."
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"Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully."
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"Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent."
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"Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian"
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"Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say."
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"I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent."
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"Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there."
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"Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness."
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"Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent."
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"I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster."
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