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There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

— Michael Eisner

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

— Vladimir Nabokov

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.

— Mika

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

— Kim Kardashian

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

— Rory Bremner

If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

— Sylvia Plath

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

— Alanis Morissette

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

— Joanna Trollope