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I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.
Author:
Michael York
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But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
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Douglas Wood
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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.
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Larry Wall
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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Patricia Velasquez
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I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
Author:
Skeet Ulrich
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Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.
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Ashley Tisdale
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In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
Author:
Amy Tan
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I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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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.
Author:
Nora Roberts
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I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
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Elliot Richardson
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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.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.
Author:
Ron Paul
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We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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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.'
Author:
Ellen Muth
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Author:
Barry Mann
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You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
Author:
Barry Mann
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I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.
Author:
Derek Luke
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Author:
Max Lerner
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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.
Author:
Karolina Kurkova
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Author:
Billy Joel
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Thomas Huxley
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Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Author:
Harrison Ford
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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.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
Author:
Albert Ellis
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Author:
Abba Eban
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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
Author:
Anita Diament
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
Author:
Caleb Cushing
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
Author:
Caleb Cushing
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Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
Author:
Stuart Chase
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Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
Author:
Charlie Chaplin
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Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
Author:
Rose Byrne
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
Author:
James Burke
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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.
Author:
James Burke
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
Author:
James Burke
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I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
Author:
Louise Brown
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Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.
Author:
Morgan Brittany
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You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.
Author:
Morgan Brittany
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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.
Author:
H. Blavatsky
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You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
Author:
Jessica Biel
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A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
Author:
Bo Bennett
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An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
Author:
Bo Bennett
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Author:
Simone Beauvoir
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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
Author:
Howard Barker
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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
Author:
Joseph Barbera
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There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?
Author:
Rosanna Arquette
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
Author:
Lance Armstrong
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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
Author:
David Antin
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Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Author:
Loni Anderson
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Author:
Richard Adams
