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I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes.' When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal.
- David Nevins
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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.
- Robert De Niro
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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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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
- Joseph Barbera
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I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.
- Alex Pettyfer
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas Huxley
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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
- Howard Barker
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There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
- Heather Matarazzo
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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.
- Michael York
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I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me - inside - I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.
- Rachel Platten
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When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.
- David Arquette
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
- Adrienne Rich
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I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.
- Ioan Gruffudd
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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.
- Caleb Cushing
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
- Vikas Swarup
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The strange rejection of the expert is mind boggling to me. When we're told that the worst word in politics is 'elite,' I have to wonder whom else are we supposed to be rooting for if not the most qualified and smart and informed people?
- Craig Mazin
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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.
- John Yarmuth
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You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
- Jessica Biel
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In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.
- Emily Watson
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What Public Enemy and Underground Resistance had in common was a rejection of the idea of music as entertainment.
- Mark Fisher
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I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.
- Ryan Kwanten
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
- Laura Kightlinger
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Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
- Stuart Chase
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I was a telemarketer for exactly one week in 2005. I could not take 'no' one more time. I could not take the rejection.
- Sufe Bradshaw
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
- Bharati Mukherjee
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Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.
- Jojo Moyes
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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.
- Cullen Bunn
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I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.
- Jennie Garth
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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.
- Janet Evanovich
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In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.
- Kara Swisher
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I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.
- David Lowery
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I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
- Seth MacFarlane
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It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
- Brandon Stanton
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You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.
- Morgan Brittany
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Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.
- Morgan Brittany
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Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.
- Muqtada al Sadr
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I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very fortunate and understand how fortunate I am.
- Rachel Bloom
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Rejection and I are old friends.
- Michaela Watkins
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The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.
- Lacey Chabert
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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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If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.
- Jane Yolen
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I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
- Elliot Richardson
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I definitely have had a couple of years where I've been working constantly, but it never goes away, that worry that you'll never work again. It's a funny job. It never gets easier. Rejection never gets easier.
- Chloe Pirrie
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I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
- J. R. Moehringer
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There isn't an actor alive who hasn't been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.
- Tom Bateman
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My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.
- Iskra Lawrence
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There's no point in dwelling on rejection.
- Isabel Lucas
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Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.
- Paul Haggis
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The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.
- Leah Pipes
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The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.
- Melissa Rauch
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Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
- Beth Ditto
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You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.
- Jennifer Armentrout
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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.
- Anita Diament
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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.
- Abba Eban
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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?
- Rosanna Arquette
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I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.
- Cicely Tyson
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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?
- Joseph Murray
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This game is full of rejection. As an actor, you are being told 'No' an awful lot of the time. You have to keep getting up and carrying on to get to where you want to go.
- Ashley Walters
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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.
- Mahmoud Abbas
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One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.
- Erwin McManus
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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.
- Jerry Spinelli
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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.
- Nora Roberts
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Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going.
- Dianna Agron
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Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.
- Tom Hodgkinson
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If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
- Mike Myers
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Take rejection as an eye-opener. Take it as something that pushes you and makes you do things better.
- Amit Sadh
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I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
- Nicholas Hoult
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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.
- MaryJanice Davidson
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
- Warren Farrell
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Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.
- Joey King
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Ghosting's a horrible thing, isn't it? It doesn't feel good, it feels like a rejection. And what's more, it feels like a rejection where there's no closure.
- Matthew Hussey
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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.
- Patricia Velasquez
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Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
- Sasha Grey
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
- Harold Prince
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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.
- Jeffrey Gitomer
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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.
- Sara Zarr
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The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.
- Marlo Thomas
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Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.
- Ashley Tisdale
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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.
- Genesis P-Orridge
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Rejection should ignite soul-searching, and the soul-searching must be absolutely honest.
- Adena Friedman
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Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.
- Adena Friedman
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Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
- Angela Cartwright
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When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
- David Morrissey
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Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.
- Marina and the Diamonds
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You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
- Daniel Craig
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'Pose' makes the case that it's important to have some sort of family structure, even if you have to create one. You know, if I go back home for a while, my mom will be like, 'Oh, I didn't really throw you out the house.' And I know so many other LGBT parents who don't really own or talk about the rejection, and it prevents healing.
- Angelica Ross
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Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.
- Henry B. Eyring
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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.
- Hassan Nasrallah
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As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.
- Troy Carter
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
- Zig Ziglar
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
- Wayne Dyer
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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.
- Stephen Colbert
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The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
- John Paul DeJoria
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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.
- Ron Paul
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
- Billy Joel
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No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.
- Jim Gaffigan
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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.
- Max Lerner
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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.
- Pratibha Patil
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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.
- Sean Harris
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I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.
- Brian Grazer
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