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“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.”

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Emily Watson

Emily Watson is a renowned British actress, born on January 14, 1967. She has made a name for herself in both film and theater with her exceptional performances and diverse role choices. more

“I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.”

Mind States Pain Belief Voice Memories Teach Singers Broke Rejection State Of Mind Rejected Mike Bad Memories Being Broke

Author:Ester Dean

“It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.”

Should Years Ends Enough Shows House Amount Shame Rejection Editors Slips Publishers Bricks Confetti Wheelbarrows

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.”

Whole Joy Fun Simple Numbers Four Crazy Streets Stupid Walking Pure Dancing Ridiculous Monsters Bunch Irony Chickens Buddy Penguins Pure Joy Sesame Street Elmo

Author:Feist

“My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.”

“Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Bigs Government Would Be Waiting Millions Reform Rejection Opposition Delighted Medicare Extending Big Government Health Reform

Author:Marcia Angell

“Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.”

Self Actors Doubt Stranger Rejection Self-doubt

Author:Monica Raymund

“"Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's all about. "But you're not auditioning for a role," I try to persuade him. "Aren't I?" he raises his eyebrows.”

Want Trying Enough Acting Careers Roles Raises Rejection Eyebrows Had Enough

Author:Alexandra Potter

“If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.”

Ifs Rejection Condemnation

Book:Evangelistic Sermons

Source: Evangelistic Sermons

“For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.”

Behinds Christianity Violence Birth Despair West Alternatives Rejection Latter Modernity Nihilism Shattered Idolatry Antiquity Imposing Facade Enchanting Accomplices

Author:David Bentley Hart

“The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.”

Doe Use Contrary Limitation Rejection Phenomenon Ethical Validation Sparrows Canon Place And Time

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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