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Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.


Stephen Fry
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
Wayne Newton
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
Louise Brown
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.


Karen McDougal
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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
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When I was first offered the book deal, I was like, 'I am not a writer. I haven't practiced this.' My approach has been completely stream-of-consciousness, and then edit down, because that's been YouTube for me forever.
Tyler Oakley
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.


H. R. Giger
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I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.


Dorothy Kilgallen
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I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.


Frank Gehry
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I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.


Elizabeth McGovern
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A lot of people let me down... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.


Lil' Kim
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It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
Christine Baranski
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The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn't turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.
Nobu Matsuhisa
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After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.
Linda Kozlowski
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Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.


Alec Baldwin
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I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.


Peter Morgan
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
Iman
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
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We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.
Shane Claiborne