Rejection Quotes
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But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
Douglas Wood -
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
Joseph Barbera
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If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.
Brian Tracy -
My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.
MaryJanice Davidson -
I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.
George Benson -
For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.
Faith Sullivan -
..the rejection of impressionistic copies of nature and a move towards sensing the content, abstraction, – expressing the extract..
Gabriele Munter -
It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
Benjamin Percy
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The rejection I received when I was young for being a homosexual... that's nothing compared to the number you do on yourself when you've been taught that you are not a human like other people.
John Grant -
The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.
Aaron Zigman -
Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.
Laura Riding -
That is precisely what we should have expected, since Genet wants to live simultaneously creation, destruction, the impossibility of destroying and the impossibility of creating, since he wants both to show his rejection of the divine creation and to manifest, in the absolute, human impotence as man’s reproval of God and as the testimony of his grandeur.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.
Mark Billingham -
You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.
Billy Crudup
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Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.
Joey King -
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.
C.D. Innes -
Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.
David Harsanyi -
Be stimulated by rejection.
Bob Gill -
I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.
Claude Monet
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Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
Andrew Shaffer -
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Emil Cioran -
In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
John David Washington -
I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
A. J. Jacobs