"It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection."

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Tommy Rettig

#Kids Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.”
“Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
“Genius is perseverance in disguise.”
“Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.”
“That's what's nice about playing festivals, too. You're on this huge, enormous stage and you've got 200,000 watts of power blowing your guitars all over the place. It sounds good.”
“Lady Luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you've got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it's all you, baby. There's no other way around it.”
“I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.”
“Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.”

Source : "Mariane Pearl, 2007 Women of the Year Honoree: What's She Up to Now?" by Mariane Pearl, www.glamour.com. October 27, 2008.

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