"Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever."
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"Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state."
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"You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind."
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"Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether."
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"To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable."
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"I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent."
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"I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have."
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"It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history."
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"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place."
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"Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?"
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"It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey."
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"Talent without work is useless, thank God"
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"A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it."
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"And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it."
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"Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly."
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"Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent."
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"Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them."
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"Talent is being able to please people."
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"If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity."
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"You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing."
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