#rejected

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#editor #every #field #i #letter

Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#agenda #almost #back #been #charge

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#because #charles #christopher #compassion #completely

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#get #going #part #rejected #times

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000? ↗

— Max Azria

#cares #certain #consumer #elite #entered

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#by the time #completely #cultural #different #dynamic

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#else #ford #go #i #labor

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

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

You take the risk of being rejected. ↗

— Roger Waters

#rejected #risk #take #you