"Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way."
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"Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura ."
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"Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent."
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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing."
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"I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."
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"I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder."
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"You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out."
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"Genius always finds itself a century too early."
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"Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius."
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"Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it."
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"Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete."
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"Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents."
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"You should believe in your talent and potential. Never lose hope."
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"Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys."
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"To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers."
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"Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying."
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"It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling."
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"In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable."
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"Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing."
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"Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage."
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