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Talent Quotes - Page 8

I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.

"TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

The older I get, the more I feel.

"Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

"Blame Phil Collins: 'South Park' loses song Oscar to 'Tarzan'" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2000.

It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.

Sebastian Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1968). “The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals”