"You do it a day at a time.……" — James Lee Burke
"You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction."
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55 Quotes by James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke has 55 quotes on this site.
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent…
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and…
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Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever…
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...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the…
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard…
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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can…
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When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your…
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There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
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But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned…
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I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make…
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More Auction Quotes
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one of 51 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the…
— Edmund Burke
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and…
— James Lee Burke
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not…
— Maya Angelou
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no…
— H. L. Mencken
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If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted…
— Peter R. Orszag
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The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more…
— Brian Miller
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This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?
— Jennifer Lawrence
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The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
— Ann Richards
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The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people…
— Bob Horner
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