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I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

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

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun.

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.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.