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I believe that every person is born with talent.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

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.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.