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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.
I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.
You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.
The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.