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There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

— Adora Svitak

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

— Joshua Waitzkin

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

— Josh Gad

I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.

— Misty Copeland

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

— Itzhak Perlman

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

— Herbie Hancock

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

— Frank Black

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

— Toby Young

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

— Pardis Sabeti

I was never a prodigy.

— Lindsay Davenport

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

— Luciano Pavarotti