Katherine Dunn Quotes

I was born with the gift.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Actors are not made, they are born.

For me, speed isn't anything I ever practiced. It's all in the genes. Plus, my mom gave me a lot of vitamins when I was small.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

There are some guys that can roll out of bed and they can throw 96 from the very first outing. I've just never been one of those guys.

If you talk about natural ability, I think Apollo's probably the most naturally gifted athlete of the new era.

I just was fortunate enough to be talented at what I was watching my brother do. It's great that it worked out that way; I might have been wasting a lot of time saying that's what I want to be, but when I got behind the wheel I had the ability.

It's so God-given - my talent - because it took so very little time to get it down to where I was able to perform.

You can't make a star - they just have it.

I think writers are born, not made.

The speed you have, you can't practice it. You have to be fast from your birth on. There are other things you can practice, like flexibility or the little steps needed to stand good to the ball, but to be fast is a gift you get.

I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't.