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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. -- George Ade
I have turned down a lot of garbage lately. -- Burt Lancaster
I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy. -- Karen McDougal
I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. -- Morgan Brittany
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses. -- Mary Antin
I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies. -- Al Pacino
Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed -- William Carlos Williams
Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them. -- Jack Nicholson
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business. -- Garth Brooks
It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another. -- Fannie Heaslip Lea
I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody. -- Steve Lillywhite
I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot. -- Jessie Ware
I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them. -- Whitney Houston
I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting! -- Pink
The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down. -- Rod Serling
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. -- Conrad Veidt
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. -- Shia LaBeouf
Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher. -- Jay Leno
I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting. -- Richard Griffiths
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest. -- Ken Loach
The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, and all food and drink become a sacrament. God's many faces are now everywhere, in flesh, tempered and turned down, so that our human eyes can see him. -- Ronald Rolheiser
I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft. -- Sheryl Crow
There are certain things that cut right to the bone, but as an actor you have to because you get turned down for things all the time. I have a friend who was told he didn't get a job because he was too hairy. I've never heard anything that bad, but you have to get used to that sort of thing. -- Max Irons
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods. -- Walt Whitman
Live Aid turned our world upside down. -- John Deacon
I never regretted what I turned down. -- Angela Lansbury
I never turned down a mother role. -- Dorothy Malone
I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before. -- John Ratzenberger
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies. -- Vin Diesel
I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money. -- Kevin Hart
I turned down one of the big young adult franchises. -- Douglas Booth
With 'Love And Basketball,' every studio turned it down. -- Gina Prince-Bythewood
Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down. -- Bill Vaughan
I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing. -- Saina Nehwal
Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree -- Tony Blair
I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. -- Frank Gehry
If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down. -- Imogen Poots
I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route. -- Mitch Gaylord
What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal. -- J. K. Rowling
When everything gets turned upside down, it only leads to better quality stuff. -- John Krasinski
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director. -- Charles Durning
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler. -- Dorothy Kilgallen
I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money. -- Jason Patric
When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane. -- DJ Shadow
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around. -- H. R. Giger
I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful. -- Christina Ricci
I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone. -- George Hamilton
Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines. -- Joan Rivers
The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement. -- Emo Philips
I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go. -- Grace Jones
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. -- Marthe Bibesco
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down -- Eric Clapton
I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste. -- Dick Van Dyke
All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down. -- Jodi Picoult
I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money. -- Shane Black
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters. -- Elizabeth McGovern
When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems. -- Billy Graham
It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down -- Billie Jean King
I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted. -- Richard Schiff
I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy. -- Tom Petty
I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really. -- Nick Frost
Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down. -- Claude Osteen
Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed -- Ruth Graham
I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time. -- Richard Harris
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer. -- Daniel Clowes
In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down. -- Kristina McMorris
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. -- Stephen Fry
I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time. -- Steven Bauer
I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola]. -- Alden Ehrenreich
It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley. -- Carl Sandburg
The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace. -- Tom Peters
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life. -- Alan Bennett
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If I was to get turned down by a girl, I'd just give up and say, 'Oh well.' -- Liam Hemsworth
I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile. -- Simone Signoret
Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies. -- Jack Canfield
I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that. -- Dennis Quaid
I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not. -- Linda Evangelista
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. -- Arthur Rimbaud
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up. -- Billy Sunday
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions. -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. -- Shia LaBeouf
Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it. -- Robert Liparulo
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Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live. -- Philipp Meyer
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down. -- Neal A. Maxwell
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I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough. -- Joel McCrea
After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man. -- Linda Kozlowski
I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school. -- George Carlin
Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball! -- J. K. Rowling
I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already. -- Tamsin Egerton
I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain. -- Judy Tenuta
I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around. -- J. Lynn
American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down. -- Larry Pressler
I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch. -- Rene Redzepi
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. -- Tori Amos
The best day of my life was when I turned 25. That's the day my car insurance went down. Yeah, boy, I saved $1,200 that day. -- Stephen Jackson
... you just turned down the woman who put a marshmallow duck in your hot chocolate. I hope you feel like a real asshole now. -- Rachel Vincent
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine. -- Pete Townshend
There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down. -- Louis Jourdan
I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance. -- Romeo Miller
Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down. -- Scott Baio
He turned his gaze upon her, and their eyes not only met, the pupils shook hands, exchanged business cards, and sat down for tea together. -- John Moore
Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down -- Scott Baio
I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax. -- Michael Cera
Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides... -- Jenny Lewis
Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down. -- Diogenes Laertius
The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, 'No, I'm an actor of the stage.' -- Kirk Douglas
I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back. -- Wanda Sykes
A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!" -- Henny Youngman
To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money. -- Mike Epps
I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms. -- Cale Yarborough
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were. -- Julie Christie
I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid. -- David Beckham
Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies. -- Rachel Caine
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles. -- Candice Bergen
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself. -- Steve Martin
I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride. -- Tyga

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