Talent Quotes - Page 18

• I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.

  M.I.A.

  Mom, Dad, Creative

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Well, the difference in working with the Supremes and the other girl groups like Martha and the Vandellas, and the Marvelettes, you let the material dictate to you, uh, really, how you worked with the group, and with the talent, and the personalities. All of these things was instrumental in having all of the groups, uh, retain their own identity. Uh, and, and the material had a lot to do with it, you know.

  Cholly Atkins

  Girl, Differences, Personality

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• Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.

  Elaine Stritch

  Needs, Wow, Jerk

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• "Unputdownable" is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can hold a lot, and it made sense that this one was not of the sleek and economical variety, but instead the "full" type. Novel as piñata. And the reader does the whacking. I had a central idea, which is to look at what happens to talent over time.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Dream, Ideas, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "Failure" isn't a word I really use. I am a very resilient person; I bounce back extremely fast, and I believe in myself and my talent as an artist.

  Sebastian Roche

  Believe, Artist, Use

  Interview with Robert Piper, nicheandnook.com. August 24, 2015.

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• We are fortunate to have such an esteemed filmmaker join the Marvel family. The talents Ryan [Coogler] showcased in his first two films easily made him our top choice to direct 'Black Panther.' Many fans have waited a long time to see Black Panther in his own film, and with Ryan we know we've found the perfect director to bring T'Challa's story to life.

  Kevin Feige

  Two, Long, Perfect

  "Ryan Coogler to direct Marvel's 'Black Panther'". news.marvel.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

  Lynne Stewart

  Hurt, Children, Add

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Thinking, Should Have, People

  "mr. hollywood". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.seventeen.com. October 22, 2005.

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• I do not draw any of the pictures for my movies as an animator. The reason for that is that I am terribly lucky to have many staff members who I look up to, and who are overflowing with talent, that work with me on each project.

  Mamoru Hosoda

  Lucky, Looks, Reason

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  F. Gary Gray

  Kids, Age, Add

  Source: collider.com

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• Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.

  L. Todd Rose

  Assessment, People, Accepting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.

  L. Todd Rose

  Selfish, Kids, Average

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

  Big Sean

  Art, Live In The Moment, Moments

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But if you look back at his career, I don't think it's surprising. From Good Will Hunting on down, the guy is a monster talent, and I think talent wins out, in the end. There's always the ebb and flow of any career, but I think talent wins out, in the end.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Winning, Thinking, Hunting

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter, if you are not singing great songs. Having great songs will not be obvious to record executives if they are not professionally produced. Consistently performing those songs extremely well is essential.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Singing, Singers

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the way they used to talk about movies and, as much as I hate to say it, the way they used to talk about books.

  Matthew Specktor

  Hate, Book, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

  Wyclef Jean

  Formulas

  "We Played Two Truths And A Lie With Wyclef Jean And The Knocks". Interview with Ezra Marcus, livenation.vice.com. January 22, 2016.

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• We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Sweat, Years, Tears

  "'Kung Fu Panda 3': Directors, Producer on Shaping a Worthy Sequel and Po’s Future". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 13, 2016.

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• A lot of people, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and a lot of people have written for other people, and of course Bruno Mars. So I think it's a great way to break into the industry and show people what you can do and show them your talent and people tend to listen a little differently to your own music as an artist, when you've proven yourself as a good songwriter for other artists.

  Bonnie McKee

  Thinking, Artist, People

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• A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Gabriela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. These are writers doing important, groundbreaking work. So the talent is there, as is the habit of radio listenership, and what we propose to do is unite the two. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists - men and women who've already revitalized the long-form narrative - we want them to tell their stories in sound.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, Men, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Give all the credit in the world to Angelique Kerber - great, great talent. She's been in the top 10 for the last four years, and she's one of those players that just really had a difficult time, when the chips were on the table, to kind of bring them over. And this time, she did it. I'm really happy for her because these chances don't come for these other players. Serena Williams has got 21 grand slam champions. Angelique Kerber was in her first final.

  Howard Bryant

  Player, Years, Giving

  "Angelique Kerber Defeats Serena Williams To Win Australian". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

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• We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience when they read it they'll understand. So there were definitely little things we were able to do that specifically leveraged the artists' talents.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Artist, Chinese

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation". Interview with Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Trying, Answers, Skirts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

  Alexander Chee

  Artist, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.

  Beau Bokan

  Passion, Thinking, Hype

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