"To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life."

-- Dana Stabenow

#Rejection Quotes #Way Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.”
“I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.”
“Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.”
“Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.”
“Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”

Source : Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
“People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.”
“The resolution of the Phoenix Saga was one of the most frustrating experiences that I think any of us ever had, but I also think it was the right move. The decision, three years later, to undo the Phoenix Saga with the resurrection of Jean was less so, but that's in my opinion.”
“None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.”

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