#reject

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

#back #bad #career #early #forget

Question for your life: Let’s say we’re making love on the moon, and my clone decides to show up. Would you tell either me or him to get lost? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#love #moon #question #rejection #sex

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. ↗

— Edmund White

#being #felt #hurt #i #life

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #cabaret #career #dope #dream

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#auditioning #being #financial #great #insecurity

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#consequently #everything #feeling #rationalism #reason

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#first #i #publications #rejection #rejection slips

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#brave #criticism #drive #fool #get

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column. ↗

— Bob Novak

#column #nobody #officially #rejected