It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.
A number of people have read 'Two-Way Split' and made certain assumptions about what the author's like, and I'm highly disappointing to them. I don't drink, I don't eat meat; that's very disappointing for a hard-boiled writer.
When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.
I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
'Graceland' getting canceled was definitely a shock and disappointing for all of us. One minute it's this. The next minute it's that.
I want to request Modiji that you cannot accomplish nation-building by disappointing the government employees.
Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing things on purpose - to get things they desperately want.
Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.
