What do you mean you won’t want to pay? A cat ate his bird. That comes under the Act of God clause. ibid. Woody to Ralph
You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs – there’s no question of it – but you gotta suffer a little too. ibid. Woody to her
Barney Dunne was the world’s worst ventriloquist. ibid. gangsta’s story
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. James Baldwin
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen J Gould
Let me tell you what I see here: a lot of raw talent. Swagger. Bravado. People are scared of you guys. They think you’re dangerous, but the world needs to hear it. Straight Outta Compton 2015 starring O’Shea Jackson & Corey Hawkins & Jason Mitchell & Aldis Hodge & Neil Brown & Paul Giamatti & Marlon Yates & Corey Reynolds & Tate Ellington & Alesandro Shipp & Angela Elayne Gibbs & Bruce Beatty et al, director F Gary Gray, agent
Sarah’s special talent was playing the flute. Nick Broomfield, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! 2011
A man who awoke one morning with an astonishing talent … ‘I woke up and I could suddenly play the piano … I struck the bottom of the pool … treated for severe concussion.’ Incredible Medicine: Dr Weston’s Casebook III, BBC 2017
An astonishing talent: he can recognise just about every face he’s ever seen. ibid.
‘I can see colours that nobody else can.’ ibid.
Joy Milne can smell things that other people can’t … Parkinson’s had an odour and Joy could smell it. ibid.
‘I am able to remember every day as if it were yesterday.’ ibid.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. Marlon Brando
I first went into a boxing gym as a child … I didn’t like to get punched in the head, man. My father didn’t give a fuck. My dad wanted me to be a boxer because he was trying vicariously to live life through me. Losers I:The Miscast Champion ***** Michael Bentt, Netflix 2019
Someone did not give Jerry Jones the fucking script. The most singular humiliating thing to a boxer is getting knocked out in public, man [Lost KO1]. My father was present. He went ballistic … I had never encountered like that kind of darkness before, that self-hatred, self-loathing. ibid.
Tommy Morrison v Michael Bentt: ‘And a good right by Bentt and Tommy Morrison is down in the first round!’ … Morrison down again … ibid. US fight commentary
You can have all the talent in the world but if you’re not brought along the right way, if you don’t have someone who’s looking out for your best interests, you’re fucked. ibid. Mickey Rourke
96 hours I was out for. And I see a light … I was always in conflict like why I fought in the first place. ibid. Bentt
Most of us don’t prepare ourselves for failure. ibid. Freddy Roach
And I wrote a piece, Anatomy of a Knockout. ibid. Bentt
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein, letter 11th March 1952
It never ceases to astonish me how talented men are at making a mess. House of Cards US s5e10: Chapter 62, Jane Davis, Netflix 2017
People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it. Frank Sinatra
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talents into my works. Oscar Wilde