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"Woody Allen: A life in film" is a documentary with a candid interview with the artist himself.
He talks about some of his movies, one of which stands out - Interiors. This was about three sisters. One, a very talented writer who wasn't getting anywhere inspite of her gift, the other was an actress and the third - Mary Beth Hurt as Joey was someone who was full of feelings but had no artistic talent at all - in the words of Woody Allen- 'which is a terrible position to be in life - to have intuitive feelings about life and nature and suffering and human beings and love and have no way to express it. Not being able to write or paint or compose or get these feelings out in any way.'

This thought stuck with me. How many of us are like Joey - Passionate and emotional yet unable to express it due to a lack of talent?

Life is actually very ordinary without talent - work, eat, sleep and die. Whatever!