Quotes About Talent

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

When I was in high school, I wasn't really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do.

It's easier to get an actor when you just ask them to do a day on something rather than have them come in, audition, get picked.

My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was 13, but my little brother picked it up instead and was such a natural, he kept it! Io Echo is a band my brother now plays in; they're really good.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.

People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.

I wasn't picked for the improv group in college - not because I wasn't good, but because I was told I didn't fit the group, didn't gel with their dynamic.

I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

I'd love to be on an Australian show and in Australian cinemas - they've really picked up their game.

I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine.

I don't want to say why I should be picked over somebody. I just want to say why I should be picked for any team.

When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it so much, I actually don't play piano now.

In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to play. I picked it up really quickly.

The first time I picked up a law book, it was like I had done it all my life. There was just something that happened to me when I did that, and I realized there was a hidden gift there I didn't know I had.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.