He's quite a genius in that respect.

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"It's not fun being a genius, " he said.

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He's won the prestigious Macarthur Genius Grant and this year, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

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"Will Ferrell epitomises what it means to be a comedic genius and it's only fitting that he should be the inaugural recipient of this award, " MTV's president Stephen Friedman said.

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"There is that madness-genius gene in him because as a player he's exceptional, with people talking about him being player of the year, but what he did today, is indefensible, " said Redknapp, also a Sky analyst.

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He's striving to earn the confidence of investors by presenting himself as a scruffy genius who doesn't care about earning their confidence.

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As for Mr Silverman, weary from round-the-clock calls to investors, he seems not so much a genius, but a man who heard Wall Street's adulation and, for a moment, believed it.

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He's a keen student of the finest details of piano performance, as well as a deep thinker about music history, and he likes to talk about Bach's genius.

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