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Quotes About Talent

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.
~ Jerry Coleman
I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.
~ Frank Carson
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.
~ Edith Wharton
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
~ Abe Burrows
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
~ Dylan Moran
Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
~ Celia Rivenbark
Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.
~ Natasha Leggero
Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!
~ Chris Rock
FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch's playing! I have always loved that about him.
~ Rufus Reid
Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.
~ Jennifer L. Armentrout, Daimon
Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.
~ Oliver Markus
Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.
~ R.S. Gompertz, Life's Big Zoo
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p
~ Robert Hughes
He's so outta my league, we're not even playing the same sport… He's professional soccer in Europe and I'm intramural badminton in the States.
~ Nicki Elson, Vibrizzio
My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
~ Jerry Lee Lewis
If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.
~ Buck Bannister
The last time I checked, I didn't have any special talent, thought Kara.Can I paint a demon to death?Drown it in some gouache?
~ Kim Richardson, Marked
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
~ Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
Capability means imagination.
~ Napoleon Hill
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
~ Elisabeth Sladen
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
~ Van Wyck Brooks