161 Rejected Quotes for You to Enjoy

Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it. Jan Schakowsky

Percent Only Firmly Supported Repeal Efforts American Legislative Republican Rejected

I've gotten rejected hundreds of times. John David Washington

Hundreds Gotten Times Rejected

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature. John Naisbitt

I used to like loads of boys and get rejected all the time. Jorja Smith

Time Like Boy Get Used Rejected Loads

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

Love Day You Lose Every Other Botox Weight Like Look Around Auditions Being Process Acting Thing Rejected Every Other Day

When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters. Kangana Ranaut

I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job. Karen Abbott

God Myself Writing Thank God Job Penny Husband Finished Earning Spent Had Supportive Said Still Years Encouraging Sell Five Forever Thank Office Get Getting Going Who Rejected

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work. Karin Slaughter

Work Saying Great Me Writing Sometimes Thought Add Everyone Those Would Write Had No-One Simply Name Liked Read Got Southern Get List Any Wanted Stories Story Literature Storytellers Note Fortunately Rejected

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

Made Fragments Fact Tennis Had Like Without Balls Improvisation Improvised In Fact Plan Bricks Actor Play Rejected Need

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times. Lauren Groff

Failure Out Kind Inured More Throw Fail Feel Because Been Times Than Get Any Fiction Succeed Pages Many Rejected

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. Leonard Alfred George Strong

Work War Down Finally Broke Record Civilian Got Till Permission Leave Ended Oxford While Medical Rejected Number

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club. Leonardo DiCaprio

Remember Young Club Kid Systematically Casting Directors Casting Directors Never Outsider Like Felt Getting Biggest Young Kid Ever Belong Rejected

I can go to my premiere at the Chinese Theatre, and everyone will know me, and everyone will cater to me. And then I'll go to an audition and get rejected left, right and centre. They don't watch my videos, and they don't really know who I am. It is like starting from scratch when it comes to traditional Hollywood. Lilly Singh

Me Theatre Videos Will Everyone Like Cater Know Am Audition Go Traditional Left Get Scratch Chinese Centre Hollywood Then Really Premiere Who Right Watch Rejected Starting

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected. Lisa Bonet

Time Feeling Alienated Spent Lot Rejected

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. Louise Brown

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. Luc de Clapiers

Thought Too Weak Simply Should Expressed Rejected

I got rejected from journalism school! Lynsey Addario

School Journalism Got Rejected

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either. Maeve Binchy

You Dance Never Go Get Either Rejected

Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends. Mahershala Ali

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