Competition from the talentless makes life tough for those a few rungs up the ladder.

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Talentless celebrities are easier to manage, cheaper to produce, and much more lucrative than real stars.

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His problems were compounded by his music teacher consistently telling him he was talentless and, finally, expelling him from the school.

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Wrting in his blog on Sunday, Lebrecht described Getty as "talentless".

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They quickly expose him as a phony, a buffoon, and a talentless hack, and then spend the rest of the movie punishing him.

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Hebborn responded with blame experts were fools, dealers were knaves, modern art was a talentless sham and set out to prove his case by defrauding everyone.

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Go Google and read all the crazy speculation about how she's really a man, the elaborate story about how she's a Satan-worshipper brainwashing us with her songs, that she's a talentless puppet.

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Achilles And The Tortoise promises to be a more light-hearted affair, focusing as it does on a talentless artist (played by the director) and his relationship with his doting wife.

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There's Vladimir Zhirinovsky, himself a creature of the KGB in the late Gorbachev era who, like the talentless Zyuganov, has been running hopelessly for president for 20 years and has even tried to claim Alaska for Russia.

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