I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.
I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth. . . . Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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By not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities.
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.
My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.
People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing