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• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandmother, Past, Ideas

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• 'America's Got Talent' has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

  Brandy Norwood

  Doors, America, Want

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• Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Artist, Given, God Given Talents

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• My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Self, Conscious, Theory

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• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  Yoko Ono

  Awe

  "Yoko Ono: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 8, 2010.

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• I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Purpose, Gifts And Talents

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• Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

  Camille Paglia

  Boys, Heaven, Ballet

  "Choices in Relationships: An Introduction to Marriage and the Family". Book by David Knox and Caroline Schacht, 2009.

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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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• The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Writing, Fire

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.112, Knopf

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• It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

  Vladimir Putin

  Moving, Years, People

  Putin Q&A: Full Transcript, content.time.com. 2007.

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• Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

  Quintilian

  Agriculture, Soil, Students

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Different, Proud, Artistic

  "Daniel Radcliffe on Romancing Boys in His New Movie and Not Being Cool in High School". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 16, 2013.

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• Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Morning, Stars, Generations

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• We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Player, Creating, Kitchen

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• I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, Restaurants, Phenomenal

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• Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

  Robert Redford

  Discovery, Voice, Sundance

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• Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

  Eli Roth

  Friendly, Chile, Terrific

  Interview with Elisa Osegueda, www.fandango.com. May 8, 2013.

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• I love finding new talent, to be completely honest, and my opportunity that I got to do 'X Factor U.K.' was just incredible. I will never forget it.

  Kelly Rowland

  Opportunity, Honest, Never Forget

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• But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn’t be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Government, America

  Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

  Nolan Ryan

  Change, Success, Leadership

  Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

  Francoise Sagan

  Done, Proust, Boundaries

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• I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Jesus, New York

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• Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Order, Careers

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• Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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