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Posted on April 29, 2013April 29, 2013 by Paul Lyons

Jerzy Grotowski Quote

There’s no such thing as talent, only lack of talent. The rest is work.

Jerzy Grotowsky
Quoted in The New Yorker, April 8, 2013

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