#rejected

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#dull #first #get #had #hindsight

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bodies #book #certain #conceive #concerning

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way. ↗

— Barry Corbin

#car #day #down #eight #essentially

I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#around #auditions #being #botox #day

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way. ↗

— Ben Gazzara

#borrowed #business #cinema #courage #courageous

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ↗

— Frank Harris

#capital #christian #churches #crowning #degraded

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#different #dozen #final #i #i tried

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#becomes #certain #course #elitism #feels

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#bricks #fact #fragments #had #improvisation

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#become #every #face #had #handed