Turned Down Quotes - Page 5

• My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, Believe, Order

  "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• Sunshine of late afternoon--
  On the glass tray
  
  a glass pitcher, the tumbler
  turned down, by which
  
  a key is lying--And the
  immaculate white bed

  William Carlos Williams

  Lying, Sunshine, Keys

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.372, New Directions Publishing

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• I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

  Dorothy Kilgallen

  Opportunity, Interviews, Adolph Hitler

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• I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Opportunity, Film, Blockbuster

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Awards, People

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• I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

  Morgan Brittany

  Agents, Bigs, Lost

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• This is why I turned down multiple $Million Dollar Offers for my website. Because the positive impact you have in other lives is more important than a quick cash out.

  Joel Brown

  Impact, Important, Dollars

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• I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

  Michael Cera

  Wall, Character, Sleep

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• I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

  Burt Lancaster

  Garbage

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• If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.

  Klaus Kinski

  Different, Would Be, Faults

  "Klaus Kinski: The Master of Screen Depravity Speaks". Interview with Ed Naha, Fangoria #28, July 1983.

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• The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Eye, Soul

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• I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.

  Duffy

  Knowing, People, Use

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• Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down.

  Claude Osteen

  Insulting, Not Sure, Trade

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• I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Years, Knowing, Scripts

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.

  Red Auerbach

  Player, Personality, Teammate

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• David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

  Gordon Brown

  School, Doctors, Views

  "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.

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• Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because
  she couldn't remember the lines.

  Joan Rivers

  Roles, Lines, Remember

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• The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Would Be, Rama

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• I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

  Richard Griffiths

  Play, Guy, Acting

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• Nothing is going to stay the same; nothing's gonna sound like in 1952. There's some stuff that has some elements of back in the day, like back in the 90's, back in the 80's or whatever. Some elements, but it's not going to be the same, exactly, sounding. And I love it, I've seen the music change. I've seen the flow and the energy go from turned up to turned down to back to turned up. I like to try different stuff. I don't like to do the same old thing over and over again. I don't like to be repetitive, that gets on my nerves.

  Juicy J

  Old Things, Trying, Back In The Day

  Source: www.independentphilly.com

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• I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

  Darlene Cates

  Roles, Fiction, Comedy

  "'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' Actress Losses 250 lbs, Wants to Act Again". Interview, www.worstpreviews.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

  Alan Bennett

  Awards, Would Be, Knighthood

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• I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

  George Hamilton

  Taken, Request, Autographs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

  Judy Tenuta

  Littles, Chains, Food Chain

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• I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

  Steven Bauer

  People, Earth, Turns

  "South Florida's Steven Bauer returns to TV". Interview with Johnny Diaz, articles.sun-sentinel.com. June 20, 2013.

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