Quotes: talent
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
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A bestseller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Source: Afterthoughts
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
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Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
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But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
