I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.
I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
I had my share of rejections.
In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.