Talent Quotes - Page 14

• Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.

  Igor Levit

  People, Musical, Rubbish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.

  Malik Yoba

  People, Creative, Band

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that.

  Malik Yoba

  Looks, Chance, Shows

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Thinking, Management, Stage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing.

  Nina Dobrev

  Scare, Growing, Want

  "Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Penina, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.

  Meryl Streep

  Drama, College, Yale

  Source: blankonblank.org

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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, Stage, Sat

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• I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.

  Dionne Warwick

  Ambition, Singers, Toes

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• The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and, whatever his talents might be, in a far less perfect manner.

  Paul Delaroche

  Photography, Perfect, Might

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• One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

  Colin Powell

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• Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

  Michel Patini

  Believe, Character, Player

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• Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

  John le Carre

  Artist, Assassins, Smugglers

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• There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented.

  Andy Kindler

  People, Genius, Online

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• The key is to get it all down on paper before the coffee stops telling you you're talented.

  Gary Gulman

  Coffee, Keys, Paper

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• Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

  Gary Gulman

  Guitar, Gypsy, Remarkable

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• The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

  Donnell Rawlings

  Strong, Skills, Names

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• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fighting, Talking, People

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• I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.

  Todd Newton

  Writing, Voice, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hard work is greater than lazy talent.

  Chris French

  Hard Work, Lazy, Greater

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• If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.

  Don Alias

  Apollo, Crowds, Like You

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• Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Art, Taken, School

  Manuel Álvarez Bravo, A. D. Coleman (1987). “Manuel Álvarez Bravo”, Aperture

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• It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all that is required is the talent to spot them and the skill to shoot them... But those moments of truth for which the photographic opportunist waits, finger on the button, are as great a mystification as the notion of autonomous creativity.

  Victor Burgin

  Creativity, Skills, Waiting

  Victor Burgin, Alexander Streitberger (2009). “Situational Aesthetics: Selected Writings by Victor Burgin”, p.64, Leuven University Press

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• The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Feel Better, Artist, Yield

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• I have often said one of the greatest secrets of missionary work is work! If a missionary works, he will get the Spirit; if he gets the Spirit, he will teach by the Spirit; and if he teaches by the Spirit, he will touch the hearts of the people and he will be happy. There will be no homesickness, no worrying about families, for all time and talents and interests are centered on the work of the ministry. Work, work, work-there is no satisfactory substitute, especially in missionary work.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, People, Worry

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

  Jamie Bamber

  Believe, Natural Talent, Practice

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