It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
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Related On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the wri... TRACY MORGAN Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted,... JERRY SPINELLI As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm stil... JASON DAY I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husban... TAMAR BRAXTON I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn... ED ASNER Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on t... RYAN HOLMES I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into ... DAN DEACON I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into m... TORY LANEZ Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never mad... JOJO MOYES I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possib... ADHIR KALYAN After 'The Hobbit,' I have no idea if things will change. I suspect if I still want to act I... MARK HADLOW I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane! ZARA LARSSON Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three ... LUIS GUZMAN One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I'm not wearing ma... BLAKE LIVELY teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities SATHESH KUMAR M I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in... IMOGEN HEAP I got ahead from the first rapid, and then just put my head down. I never saw any of he other girls ... CAROL JOYCE I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off ... SUSAN BOYLE We're just a big media family. My mom is always sending us articles throughout the day. My husba... ALLISON WILLIAMS I'll do very light, very easy yoga in my dressing room. I like to just lay down on the floor and... AIDY BRYANT My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mi... MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY I think once I figured out where my groove was or my thing that everybody started honing in on what ... CRAIG MORGAN I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my famil... ALEX MORGAN I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never hi... CHRISTOPHER KOCH Dear Sixpence, I saved them all, you know. Every letter you ever sent, even those to whic... SARAH MACLEAN I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft. JANICE DICKINSON I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work ... JOJO I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was rais... KATEE SACKHOFF Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes ... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beaut... BUSY PHILIPPS So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my gr... GEORGE LOPEZ I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with m... RAMEZ NAAM I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. M... AZZEDINE ALAIA In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say... BO BURNHAM I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they&... KERRY STOKES I was elated by my success in my work, but shattered over my mother's death, and miserable about the... CONRAD VEIDT I still don't have full use of my finger. It's hard to work a power saw if you can't press the butto... HARRY BLOECHLE It's refreshing in one way, knowing that I've got to come in and prove myself all over again and slo... ALECKO ESKANDARIAN When I get out of work early, or if I have some time before I go into the studio, I go to Disneyland... BECKY G I work every day hard. I put my body through hell. Let me tell you, every year, seven months of the ... MO FARAH I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this ... OLIVIER MARTINEZ I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra... JOHN NASH I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra... JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed m... EDDIE GUERRERO It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to g... A. R. RAHMAN I sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eve... CULLEN BUNN My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with... JOHNNY VEGAS I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing... KATIE MCGRATH All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence ... GRAHAM NORTON Coach put my dad's initials on the sleeves of our team shirts, so we all could have a memory of him.... MARK REDLINGSHAFER I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a ... BEN MARCUS My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't goin... TOM BODETT I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have jus... K. D. LANG My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I coul... RICHARD AVEDON You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That&... LARRY FITZGERALD With you in my life I felt like I could conquer anything. It was as if I was on top of the worl... RANATA SUZUKI It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u... JACK STRAW I could not have made it without the support from the community and family. I still miss my wife, bu... LARRY OTIS For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm tak... GIOVANNI RIBISI I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking ... BRITTANY SNOW I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today. BAM MARGERA I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's b... STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' h... WINNIE HARLOW I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arth... RONDA ROUSEY I'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It... KATHLEEN KENNEDY My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animat... GORE VERBINSKI I could Photoshop for hours. I spend way too much time making thumbnails. I spend, like, two hours o... CONNOR FRANTA I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everyt... KEKE PALMER I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an ... GABRIELLE UNION I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l... R. KELLY I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw ho... CHRIS O'DONNELL I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. THOMAS A. EDISON When I came out my freshman year, it basically opened my eyes to the sport. I realized wrestling is ... FRANCISCO MENDOZA My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it... CARRIE ANN INABA I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I... PHILIP GREEN My game's a little shaky. I could go out and shoot four under, I could go out and shoot four over. I... BRETT WETTERICH I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year i... JIM RASH All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with fr... HAILEY BALDWIN I definitely try and wash my face twice a day, and I never go to bed with my makeup on. I mostly jus... SARA PAXTON All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence ... GRAHAM NORTON My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long... BILL WALTON It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for th... GREG MOTTOLA I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected the... CARL SANDBURG Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. CAROLINE B. COONEY My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it w... BILL BURR The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It'... BAM MARGERA I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light... PHILIPPA GREGORY My hair grows into a fuzz ball - I just wanted it to grow downwards rather than outwards - but then ... HOZIER I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view. DAVID CASSIDY I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offic... CORY MICHAEL SMITH I'm usually woken by a vibration on my up-band. It's the gradual vibration for about ten sec... AMY TAN I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trend... RAINA TELGEMEIER Obviously, everyone's different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my fri... HARRY KANE I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity w... ELENA ANAYA It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who be... DO WON CHANG One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every co... ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is. JAMIE LEE CURTIS It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, t... JASON MRAZ When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the... COLIN KAEPERNICK
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Might have seene a full fayre sight.
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Our... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY For there are deeds
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Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something af... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY And many an ante-natal tomb
When butterflies dream of the life to come. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
The signet of its all-enslaving power
Upon a shining... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . . . then black despair
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I ... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pai... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling
With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed
... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Familiar acts are beautiful through love. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the i... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY