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• My parents didn’t want me to be an actor. They didn’t think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

  Rupert Penry-Jones

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  Tags in Rejection, Parents

• I don’t really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

  Nicholas Hoult

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  Tags in Rejection, Myself

• 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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  Tags in Disappear, Rejection

• The thing about stand-ups is you can’t really get good unless you’re failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can’t do anything.

  David Steinberg

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  Tags in Reserve, Rejection

• Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

  Charles Stanley

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  Tags in Rejection, Faithful

• 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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  Tags in Rejection, Wrote

• The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about yet refuse to investigate.

  Wayne Dyer

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• I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

  Jeanette Winterson

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  Tags in Hurt, Rejection

• Rejection isn’t a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there’s always room for improvement.

  Ana Hart

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Rejection

• At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  Al Pacino

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  Tags in Rejection, Audition

• I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That’s what keeps me going.

  Laura Kightlinger

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  Tags in Rejection, Keeps

• 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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  Tags in Rejection, Problem, Behind

• You get used to the rejection and you don’t take it personally.

  Daniel Craig

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  Tags in Used, Rejection, Take

• 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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• I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

  Sylvester Stallone

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• My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

  David Antin

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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.

  Rose Byrne

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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 Lee Richardson

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  Tags in United States, Senate, Rejection

• It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

  Tommy Rettig

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Rejection

• 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.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Rejection, Thought