Rejected Quotes - Page 16

• The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.

  Homer Hickam

  Writing, Keys, Magazines

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world.

  Allen W. Wood

  Views, World, Faults

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

  Andrew Breitbart

  People, Want

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.

  Catherine Wilson

  Drinking, Inspire, Culture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

  Mona Charen

  Culture, Censorship, Output

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• I feel like we're so limited by the context at which we look at life. The way we look at who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to love... everything. I feel like that, in and of itself, is a project of a lifetime: the problem of how to break out of the limiting context that is imposed upon us by the educational system, by the church, by our parents... As a kid I rejected it without even thinking about it. Now that I'm a little older, I see how deeply destructive it really is.

  Jeff Mangum

  Educational, Kids, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My spiritual path has largely been Christianity - a label that I embraced and then rejected and have partially embraced again, as my understanding of Christianity has changed over time. When I accepted the mainstream, dogmatic definition of Christianity there came a point when I had to say, "Well, if that's what a Christian is, I'm not one."

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Spiritual, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Nominations, Court, Committees

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

  Aya Cash

  Good Work, Doing Good, Embarrassed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

  Aya Cash

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

  Steve Israel

  Vote, Argument, Congress

  "Rep. Steve Israel Condemns Use Of Iran Nuclear Deal As A 'Cheap, Partisan Stunt'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 11, 2015.

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• Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Way, Doe

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my own and turning it in to them and having it rejected or accepted, I was working much more directly with the syndicate, turning in smaller batches much more frequently, and getting comments on them. The idea was that they would help me develop the strip and then, assuming that they liked it, it would flow into a normal contract for syndication.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Development, Flow

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• I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.

  Bill Watterson

  Years, Long, Together

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Editors, Eight

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.

  Emo Philips

  College, Play, Black

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  New Life, Hinduism, Interpretation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

  Amber Tamblyn

  People, Ask Me, Asks

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write a lot because it's like a sport - you have to practice. And, also, you have to persevere. Don't give up. I got rejected on my first book, like, 14 times, but I just kept going. So believe in yourself and don't give up.

  Rick Riordan

  Sports, Giving Up, Book

  Source: starraptureblog.wordpress.com

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• For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the major studios. Nobody wanted to make it and they didn't think it would make any money, but I read the book and I thought, "Wow, I want to capture that feeling of just being crazy in love. I wonder if I can do that in a film." That was my challenge.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Crazy, Twilight, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

  Jim Steranko

  Ideas, Tragedy

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• It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever.

  Matt Damon

  Drinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

  Francois Fenelon

  Gift From God, Accounts

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• After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

  Chuck Close

  Atheist, Lying, Thinking

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• Even though I'm on a show that I love with people that I love - I have basically the dream job - that doesn't mean I'm not getting rejected on a daily basis.

  Aya Cash

  Dream, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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