He has total respect for America as the arbiter of showbiz genius - success over here means nothing to him other than as a way into the US.
These yin-yang couplets explain some of his genius and success.
It doesn't take away from Kaufman's genius for success or from the pleasure he provided audiences for so long that today his work reads like a footnote to literature, rather than the thing itself.
Though many have done the same, the film tries to rundown the root of Basquiat's genius and success.
"He has earned the right through his musical genius and success and cultural impact to do things the way he wants to do them.
It's natural to look back and mythologize the long nights and manic moments of genius, but success isn't about working hard, it's about working smart".
"He has earned the right through his musical genius and success and cultural impact to do things the way he wants to do them," Randy Philips, then the chief executive of AEG Live and co-promoter of Prince's 21-night 2007 London stand, told The Times.
Collins wrote Gosse a number of grateful letters: "I thoroughly believe in your haven, and your genius and your ultimate success — success I mean in the highest sense of the word".
On a personal level, there is a sense that Messi needs to consecrate his genius with international success.
Like Steven Spielberg after him, Disney was a Midwesterner by birth who combined creative and commercial genius and found success in Hollywood before he was 30.
"Some have credited Sid Caesar's comic genius with their success, while others have portrayed the writers as the creators, making Sid and the actors merely the vessels for their genius," said Jane Klain, manager of research services at the Museum of Television and Radio.
