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I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

— Pete Maravich

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

— Jimmy Dean

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

— Victoria Beckham

If you got talent, you just have to do you.

— Missy Elliott

My musical career was an accident.

— Sade Adu

No talent lies in my dancing.

— Emilia Clarke

I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

— Brenda Lee

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

— Anna Chancellor

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

— Bobby Sherman

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

— Bob Weir

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

— Otis Redding