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"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."
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"I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist."

"Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want."

"They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment. I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child-though equally dependent and friendless-Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained..."

"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat."

"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
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"I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving."

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

"Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth."

"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children."

"There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more."

"Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought."

"While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience."

"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."

"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."
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