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In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

— Meg Wolitzer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.

— Melvyn Bragg

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

— Maynard Webb

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

— Constantin Stanislavski

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

— Shia LaBeouf

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

— Eric Idle

I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.

— Tamra Davis

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

— Sidney Sheldon

✗Opposing Perspectives

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

— Marguerite Gardiner

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.

— Steve Vai