Quotes About Rejection

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

I wish everybody in the Republican Party had rejected Mr. Trump and chosen someone else.

You can always hear a director saying, 'Well I don't really know what this piece is saying, so therefore, I reject it.' There are any number of things you can anticipate going wrong, and sometimes they go right. But I think the things you like most are the things that get rejected first. That's just how things work.

It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.

Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.

You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

If someone decides to go ahead with a project that I had rejected earlier, and it works out well for him or her, there is no point in feeling bad.

You need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out of church, honey. The church kicked God out of church.

I've gotten rejected hundreds of times.

I don't accept films just because they have star heroes in lead. I rejected a few big films because I didn't like the story.

Girls rejected me a lot.

I have a coming-out story that's probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected, the fear of losing your family and friends. You know, I worked through all of that, and that fear, and what that does to you, is pretty profound.

Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.

Like, I feel like I'm funny, despite the fact that I keep getting rejected by people less funny than me.

I hate being rejected.

If I played a vamp I would be rejected by the audience outright.

For more than 30 years, the state of Nevada and local communities have rejected the Yucca Mountain project. In fact, the state has filed over 200 contentions against the Department of Energy's license application, challenging the adequacy of the department's environmental impact assessments.

I have been offered thrice to participate in 'Bigg Boss' and I rejected it everytime.

I always wanted to do an emotional role but was rejected a couple of times because the directors felt that I have always done negative roles and so I wouldn't fit the bill. That was dejecting.

I never went through that awkward period of being rejected by girls.

People sometimes just need inspiration to keep moving along, whether it's going to Notre Dame and being rejected, or taking a long time to bring a sports movie and Hollywood together, which took a long time for 'Rudy.'

I was in the NDA (National Defence Academy) when the Kargil war happened, and I was all set to join the Indian Army. But my family was not keen. In addition to that, I got rejected because of my poor eyesight.

You can be accepted in a film which is amazing, and the same person can be rejected in another film whose content does not resonate with people.