"And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent."
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"There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life."
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"Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?"
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"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other."
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"It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."
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"Money can run out but talent is forever"
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"One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it."
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"I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living."
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"Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all."
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"probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone."
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"I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent."
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"I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent."
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"Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence."
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"Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do."
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"He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry"
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"Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find."
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"Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear."
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"Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted."
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"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
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"Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time."
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