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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#enormous #feel #i #i feel #must

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#male #sex #thoughtlessness #vindictiveness #war

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

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In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #everything #falling #had #i

If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me. ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#album #been #covers #deals #decided

I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

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