Rejection Quotes
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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.
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Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.
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Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.
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As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.
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The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed
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I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
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I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'
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Everyone fears rejection.
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The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.
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There is a resentment and rejection of liberal culture. That culture is not available to many people in America. And the liberal coastal elite, who may never have been to rural America, just think everyone there is racist and homophobic and judge them to be terrible people. They think there is nothing wrong to be making jokes about 'meth heads', who are actually a group of people with poverty-related drug issues. They don't see their own hypocrisy. I think this is a huge issue and one that cannot be ignored.
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When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.
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If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?
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I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.
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Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
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The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
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I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.
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Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
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Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.
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I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.
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I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
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Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
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Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to look at their eyes on screen and feel them. I guess that's specifically talking about actors, but I think that's probably true in general. You want to keep your skin thin.
