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.
If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.
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.
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.
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.
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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.
A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.
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.
