#genius

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius. ↗

— Linda Blair

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Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature. ↗

— Robert Blair

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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. ↗

— George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ↗

— George Eliot

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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ↗

— Bruce Feirstein

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