I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
It's not every actor that can play a genius.
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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