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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
But a rejection of freedom of movement within Europe's own boundaries does not strengthen the case for accepting more migrants and refugees from outside: the reverse, in fact.
- Take
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- Nov 07, 2020
With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.
- Nov 07, 2020
You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.
- Agreements
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- Nov 07, 2020
The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
- Civil Rights Act
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.
- Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no one thing that can turn around a rejection. But there is one answer: begin talking to your customers who have already bought from you and discover why they bought.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rejection is the one constant of human experience.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aside from bringing back extinct species, reanimation could help living ones by restoring lost genetic diversity. The Tasmanian devil (aka Sarcophilus harrisii) is so inbred at this point that most species members can exchange tumor cells without rejection.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.
- Fears
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone fears rejection.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
- Equanimity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eventually, I found myself working at a comic book shop, where I met my future collaborator Brian Hurtt.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020