There needs to be more deliberate effort on the part of folks at VC firms to bring in a more diverse team of talent. You have to make a more concerted effort to bring in people who are different and who may not be in your network.
When we get to a point when trans folks are included in the creative process, the narrative will be much more authentic. Trans actors playing trans roles is a key part of that. But some of the trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, let’s be honest.
Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.
I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
If you got talent, you just have to do you.
I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, ‘I’m just gonna be me,’ and all the thugs just said, ‘It’s OK, he’s special.’ They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
My voice is a gift. My talent is a gift. The life process is a gift. The opportunity for the journey is a gift.
To stay attractive and competitive, the U.K. should take measures to ensure that skilled talent keeps flowing in and out the country.
I’m rocking with PUMA – they got a lot of new wave, new talent, and they keep the new sauce.
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That’s how I treated my career. I didn’t think I was anybody special, anybody different.
Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic.
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young… he killed himself in the prime of his life.
One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his ‘little fat sausage.’ But I always knew I had musical talent.
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
If I don’t die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one’s nose, taking shortcuts.
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it’s not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it – a work of art.
The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It’s an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they’ll support you.
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
The audience has reacted well to my comic timing. But, I also have other aspects to my acting talent.
India’s Got Talent’ is one of the biggest platforms for talent across the world.
Sometimes you’re trapped in writing songs and you don’t have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations – the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.
At the end of the day, you can have all the talent in the world. But if you don’t put in the work, nothing works. The engine doesn’t start going. It’s a car without gas.
If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
I was given a talent to play cricket. I don’t know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it’s just opinion. Don’t let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
The way NXT has been from day one when I was asked to do it, ‘Don’t put me on camera. I do not need to be on camera unless it’s absolutely necessary. This isn’t about me, it’s about the talent,’ and everyone that works in NXT, that’s what we think.
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.
I think a leader has many roles to play. So, you know, one role is that of incubating talent; the other is that of being a strategist. It’s a very interesting job I’ve got.
I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else’s talent.
We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.
I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren’t necessarily big sellers.
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
There’s no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there’s such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.
God gave me talent, He gave me gifts in order to magnify Him.
Real talent is mixing realism with bluff. Every great artist I really respect has a certain amount of bluff; sooner or later you have to be a conjurer, and conjure images.
I don’t want my personality to overshadow my talent.
I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
All the money I have, I made with my talent.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
The talent is in the choices.
I began as a boy with artistic talent… as a visual artist… I thought that was what I’d become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
I feel very proud as a father when my daughter is being recognised for her talent and hard work.
No, but I’ve always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don’t take my fans for granted.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
A lot of people don’t realize the skills and talent that I have.
When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.
I don’t want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
When you’ve got some talent, your job is to use it.
A secret talent or hobby… Hmm… I weirdly collect shot glasses.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
