Quotes of: Talented-people Keyword

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

Geraldine Stutz

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Ira Glass

'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.

Joe Bastianich

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Mary Lou Retton

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

Robert Gottlieb

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

Mason Cooley

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Jonathan Coe

The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.

Primo Angeli

The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.

P. J. O'Rourke

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

Robert Gottlieb

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Steven Spielberg

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

Sara Sheridan

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

Stuart Woods

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

Toni Collette

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

Taylor Hackford

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

Katherine Dunham

Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in the writing and acting on both!

Kyle MacLachlan

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Kurt Vonnegut