Talent Show Quotes

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  Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Power, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

  Marco Pierre White

  Opportunity, People, Talent

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

  JJ Feild

  Monday, Winning, Next

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• I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

  Susan Ann Sulley

  Thinking, People, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."

  David Copperfield

  Teacher, Kids, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Voice, People, Frustrated

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• I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

  Ishmael

  Brother, Hip Hop, Gone

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• The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.

  Chuck Barris

  Simple, Ideas, Scams

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• I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

  James Brown

  Years, Saws, Indiana

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• She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

  David Nicholls

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Diners

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Years, Cameras

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• He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this?

  David Nicholls

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars,' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.

  Josh Henderson

  Drama, Reality, Careers

  "Hot Topic: Josh Henderson" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. June 13, 2012.

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• We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Judging, Want, Our Society

  "Melissa Etheridge: Mission Possible" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2011.

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• I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Cute, Hands, People

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• When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

  Trey Parker

  Blood, Play, Fake

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• I understand why people do reality TV talent shows, I just don't think it's good for music. It's karaoke. What three people on a panel perceive as being great vocally, I think, isn't necessarily right.

  Susan Ann Sulley

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Running, Home, People

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• I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.

  Ariel Pink

  Gun, Opposites, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

  Wanda Sykes

  Down And, Talent, Stage

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• One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.

  Mavis Staples

  School, Kids, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel like success is really subjective. You could win a school talent show and be like "I was successful", or you could get a Number One in New Zealand and be like "I was successful', or you could win a Grammy and be like "I was successful".

  Thomston

  School, Successful, Winning

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• I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em.

  Ariel Pink

  Real, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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