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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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"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 submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."

"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."
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"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."


"Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived."


"When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair."


"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."


"When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures."


"I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time."


"Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art."
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