If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.
No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.
I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.
In retrospect, I do think it's fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.
My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.
If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.
When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.
I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.
Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.
Don't be a Pollyanna!
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
