"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

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Anita Diament

#Nice Quotes #Rejection Quotes #Historical Quotes

“Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.”
“I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.”
“I wouldn't change anything for the world, although the fame part of this [entertainment] industry is tough to handle at times.”
“One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.”

Source : "Dame Joan Sutherland obituary" by Alan Blyth, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.
“Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.”
“The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.”

Source : Judith Rich Harris (1999). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.”
“All of our dreams can come true.”

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