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“She’s out of your league.” Beth giggled. “That’s because she turned you down flat freshman year. Isaiah thought he could date up and asked a sophomore out. Little did he know Ms. Perfect had been dating King Luke for a year.”

Turned Down Echo Emerson Beth Isaiah Out Of Your League

Book:Pushing the Limits

Source: Pushing the Limits

“I've never worked here before. I'm just filling in for a friend--- which, by the way, I wouldn't have needed to do if you hadn't ruined everything and forced us to eat at Taco Bell." "I didn't force you to eat anywhere. And, anyway, after last night, I'm surprised you have the energy to fill in for anyone." "After last night, I'm surprised you think I'd have any interest in talking to you.”

Turned Down Verbal Salt

Book:A Second Bite at the Apple

Source: A Second Bite at the Apple

“I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would rather not have done, but having a home and family requires that we sometimes do things we would rather not.”

I Can Sometimes Done Home Roles Regret Regard Turned Down Home And Family

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.”

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Author:Louise Penny

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.”

Thinking Careers My Family Debt Profession Horrible Again And Again Turned Down

Author:Joely Richardson

“I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.”

Want Wanted Jobs Chef Scratches Cuisine Turned Down

Author:Rene Redzepi

“I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.”

Giving Mother Actors Four Week Summer Daughter Silly Nine Movie Turned Down Vancouver Silly Movie

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.”

Want Sometimes Enough Kids Film Priorities Turned Down I'm Sad

Author:Dianne Wiest

“I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.”

Enough Ability Roles Good Enough Turned Down

Author:Joel McCrea

“I never turned down a mother role.”

Mother Roles Turned Down

Author:Dorothy Malone

“In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.”

World Hands Kids Beautiful Games Perfect Wife Scripts Hills Get Better Tennis Los Angeles Toms Turned Down A Perfect World Beautiful Wife Tennis Game

Author:Matthew Perry

“Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.”

Faces Brad Turned Down

Author:Stephen Fry

“In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.”

War Facts China These Days Vietnam Johnson Turned Down Escalation

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".”

Want Said Book Able Reading Stuff Imagination Challenges Inspire Scripts Capture Not Interested My Imagination Books And Reading Turned Down

Author:Karl Urban

“I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“This is why I turned down multiple $Million Dollar Offers for my website. Because the positive impact you have in other lives is more important than a quick cash out.”

Important Life Is Millions Offers Impact Dollars Cash Multiple Website Million Dollars Turned Down Positive Impact

Author:Joel Brown

“I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.”

Way Want Might Ability Player Personality Trade Golden Chemistry Teammate Turned Down

Author:Red Auerbach

“David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.”

“If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.”

Ifs Made Different Would Be Faults Accepted Turned Down

Author:Klaus Kinski

“The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, "For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody - and make them pay through the nose."”

Turns Lines Pay Accepting Policy Cost Radio Noses Coverage Turned Down Insurance Policy Life Insurance Policy

Author:Andrew Tobias

“Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.”

Remember Lines Roles Turned Down Helen

Author:Joan Rivers

“The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.”

Ifs Would Be Buddhism Financial Aids Grants Phenomenon Cult Rama Qualifications Turned Down Financial Aid

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.”

Ifs Able Three Games Records Talent Tough Skins Perseverance Crafts Labels Get Better Quarters Turned Down Record Labels Tough Skin

Author:Sheryl Crow

“The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.”

Book Soul Eye Seeing Window Passages Notable Lively Turned Down Open Book Levity

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Nothing is going to stay the same; nothing's gonna sound like in 1952. There's some stuff that has some elements of back in the day, like back in the 90's, back in the 80's or whatever. Some elements, but it's not going to be the same, exactly, sounding. And I love it, I've seen the music change. I've seen the flow and the energy go from turned up to turned down to back to turned up. I like to try different stuff. I don't like to do the same old thing over and over again. I don't like to be repetitive, that gets on my nerves.”

Trying Different Energy Stuff Sound Elements Flow Nerves Turned Down Repetitive Back In The Day Old Things Same Old Thing

Author:Juicy J

“I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.”

Littles Chains Turned Down Food Chain

Author:Judy Tenuta

“I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.”

Thinking Should Play Character Sleep Roles Streets Wall Stones Idiot Turned Down Never Sleep

Author:Michael Cera

“I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.”

Fiction Roles Comedy Jokes Science Fiction Refuse Fats Turned Down Fat Women

Author:Darlene Cates

“I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.”

Thinking Majors Advertising Turned Down

Author:Linda Evangelista

“I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.”

Roles Lucky Turned Down

Author:Richard Schiff

“I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.”

People Earth Turns Despicable Turned Down

Author:Steven Bauer

“Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.”

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Author:Ali MacGraw

“I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.”

Writing Firsts Whole Wanted Speak Scripts Whole Life Turned Down

Author:Steve Martin

“My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.”

Believe Art Order Focus Passionate Turned Down

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.”

Knows Want Years Long Opportunity Answers Son Periods Hollywood Raises Right Thing My Son Take Time Time Off Turned Down Long Periods Of Time

Author:Arsenio Hall

“Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.”

“I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.”

Guy Rocks Gun Rose Producers Melody Shouting Turned Down Guns N Roses

Author:Steve Lillywhite

“Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed”

Lying White Keys Bed Late Glasses Sunshine Afternoon Pitcher Turned Down Immaculate Trays Late Afternoon

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.”

Ifs Has Beens Said States Today Imagine Standards Candidates Secretary Embarrassing Larry High Standards Turned Down Gallagher Standards Set

Author:Jay Leno

“I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot.”

Thinking Should Play Would Be Song Feet Easier Shots Radio Albums Turned Down

Author:Jessie Ware

“Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret.”

Feels Should Made Done Path Havens Regret Should Have Good Movie Turned Down

Author:Noah Baumbach

“Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.”

Way Sometimes Might Known Scripts Accepted Turned Down

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.”

Firsts Made Film Turned Down

Author:Al Pacino

“I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.”

Want Film Coming Out Turned Down

Author:Robin Wright

“I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.”

Done Regret Down And Turned Down Don't Regret Don't Regret Anything

Author:Nick Frost

“There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to audition for it. I didn't get the part. I didn't even go in because I thought that the part was just a repackaged version of the parts I played before in these young adult films - sort of moody, masculine, but sensitive and all this kind of thing. It was just a repackaged, rather dull thing.”

Kind Stories Film Young Roles Majors Adults Young Adult Versions Sensitive Dull Auditions Masculine Turned Down Moody

Author:Max Irons

“There are certain things that cut right to the bone, but as an actor you have to because you get turned down for things all the time. I have a friend who was told he didn't get a job because he was too hairy. I've never heard anything that bad, but you have to get used to that sort of thing.”

Jobs Used Certain Actors Cutting Heard Bones Turned Down

Author:Max Irons

“The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.”

Light Audience Doors Happenings Performances Down And Things I Love Turned Down Live Performance

Author:Cate Blanchett

“It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.”

Way May Has Beens Jobs Sound Industry Lots Of Money Pretentious Turned Down Gaining Power

Author:Val Kilmer

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