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"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat."
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"Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you."

"Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn't understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by Gregory's uncomfortable conduct I had to assume it was an honest trial."

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

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

"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..."
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"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."

"That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood."

"I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man."

"What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan."

"I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager."

"It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful."

"I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters."

"I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big."
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