#rejections

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

— Edmund White

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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

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But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. ↗

— Jon Ronson

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The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent. ↗

— Danielle Steel

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Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh. ↗

— Meg Cabot

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There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

#course #danger #entire #likelihood #models

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were. ↗

— Robert Englund

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I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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