Quotes About Persistence

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

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.

I don't chase publishers. Publishers chase me.

We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs and restaurants, and I played four nights a week to make ends meet.

I'd been gigging since I was 14, doing little competitions and pubs and clubs and old people's homes.

I just try to do my best to shoot the puck and we'll see what's going to happen with it.

Have you noticed that almost all the change in the world goes to women? When was the last time you had a five pence piece? Exactly. In a Christmas pudding. All the rest of it is in women's handbags.

I heard Idles and was like this is all I want to work on, this is all I want to do, these guys are the best. I got into their DMs and told them that and luckily we got to meet and the proof is in the pudding.

I had been successful in Japan, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, but nothing in the U.S. where it really matters.

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.

I'm trying to put the past to rest, but things just keep popping up to just pull me back in.

'Super Troopers' did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it - in ancillary markets - that it became impossible for us to get away from it. We'd get pulled over by cops who would thank us and then would let us go.

All the big fights in the past they would say 'Rocky won't do this or that' and I pulled it off.