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If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different.
Bella Hadid
Book
Job
Rejection
See
Something
Like
Different
It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
Benjamin Percy
Work
Day
Light
Doors
Down
Rejection
Incredibly
Honing
Saw
Way
Kicking
Thousands
Could
Never
Put
Hours
House
Still
Craft
Getting
Just
Sent
Pages
Hard
Novels
Letters
Published
Four
Early
Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
Beth Ditto
Rejection
Chubby
Kid
Constantly
About
Obsession
Learned
Up
Friends
Trying
Avoid
Growing
Growing Up
Ton
Early
Imaginary
You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.
Billy Crudup
Great
You
Stage
Every
Rejection
Sees
Part
Nobody
Terrible
Deal
Audition
Reviews
Get
Gets
Whether
Then
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel
Man
Fool
Wish
Thinking
Rejection
More
Afraid
Really
Less
Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.
Brie Larson
Work
Day
Try
Too Much
Feeling
Met
Lose
Rejection
Too
Market
Lately
Say
Out
Find
Seek
Someone
Something
No-One
Attention
Know
Likes
Well
Real
Been
Getting
Going
Where
Want
Ask
Much
Much Attention
Farmers
Street
One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection, is that if I do the work, I go in, and I'm prepared and I audition and they don't hire me, I'm always just amazed, thinking, 'Wow! For that money, they could've had Bruce McGill, and they didn't take me? I just think that's amazing.'
Bruce McGill
Work
Me
Business
Money
Amazing
Think
Thinking
Rejection
Difficulties
Defense
Wow
Bruce
Take
Had
Always
Audition
Amazed
Go
Hire
Just
McGill
Which
Mechanisms
Prepared
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
Caleb Cushing
You
Constitution
People
Rejection
State
Several
States
Respective
Adoption
Know
Well
Debates
Sir
Submitted
Conventions
Warmest
Awakened
The hardest thing about acting is all of the other things you have to think about besides performing... Your image, your team, networking - not to mention the mental strength you need to be able to stay unaffected by the rejection that every actor experiences.
Cameron Boyce
Strength
You
Every
Think
Rejection
Other
Unaffected
Besides
Stay
Able
About
Mental
Networking
Mention
Performing
The Hardest Thing
Experiences
Acting
Your
Team
Actor
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Things
Image
Need
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg
Rejection
Corner
Later
Those
Station
Brooks
Poems
Wrote
Read
Editors
Years
Off
Sent
Them
Who
Agreed
Letters
Street
Right
Rejected
Two
As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
Carol Leifer
Work
You
Fear
Rejection
Worst
Worst Thing
Writer
Environment
Thing
I definitely have had a couple of years where I've been working constantly, but it never goes away, that worry that you'll never work again. It's a funny job. It never gets easier. Rejection never gets easier.
Chloe Pirrie
Work
Funny
You
Job
Rejection
Worry
Easier
Definitely
Constantly
Never
Had
Couple
Been
Years
Goes
Gets
Where
Again
Working
Away
As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'
Christina Ricci
Needs
Healthy
Lose
Rejection
Too
Teenager
Favourite
Weight
She
Looks
Course
Which
I experienced rejection numerous times.
Coco Martin
Rejection
Numerous
Numerous Times
Times
Experienced
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
Dani Shapiro
Disappointment
Matter
Whatever
Every
Rejection
Our
Writer
Maintain
Equanimity
Withstand
Lot
Where
Order
Necessary
Need
Careers
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
Daniel Breaker
Fear
Rejection
Way
Through
Steve
Doing
Impressions
Getting
Started
The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
Darin Strauss
Failure
Rejection
Followed
Advance
Look
Same
Might
Letter
Start
Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
Darin Strauss
Writing
Job
Freelance
Rejection
Our
Security
Constant
Blank
Blank Page
Course
Understand
Terror
Reviewers
Dictated
Friends
Paths
Being
Page
Hard
Why
Career
Desk
Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.
David Harsanyi
Life
My Life
Living
Rejection
Assumed
Wild
State
Wild West
Later
Saw
Bit
Plenty
Would
Would-Be
Intrusive
Laws
More
Colorado
Wrong
New
Most
Nanny
Witnessed
Got
West
York
Legislation
New York
Even
Lived
I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.
David Lowery
Work
Home
Me
Parents
Own
Rejection
Our
Bits
Though
Trickle
Embrace
Some
Part
Drums
Catholic
Sure
Always
Still
Encouraged
Up
Going
Grew
Whether
Little
Us
Avoid
March
Deeply
The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.
Denise Di Novi
You
Business
Perseverance
Passion
Path
Dedication
Rejection
Tremendous
Badly
Deal
Lot
Very
Want
Movie
Movie Business
Frustrating
Straight
I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.
Dimebag Darrell
Rejection
Harmonies
Some
Overboard
Cheeks
Go
Lines
Hard
It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
Ellen Muth
Me
Try
Father
Thought
Rejection
Ruin
Would
Something
Like
Self-Esteem
She
Because
Want
Wants
Her
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
Felicia Day
Love
Heart
Judgment
Rejection
Enough
Bit
Geek
Someone
Something
Brave
Essentially
Substance
Being
Against
Little
To Love
Little Bit
Means
I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
Finn Wittrock
Time
You
Writing
Control
Rejection
Tell
Something
No-One
Because
So Much Time
Little
Much
Working
Acting
Professionally
Started
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
Fred Saberhagen
Success
Cake
Thought
Sense
Rejection
Bat
Sold
Immediate
Slips
Something
Had
Piece
Off
Did
Going
Really
Full
Right
Rejection Slips
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