Expectations Quotes

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There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there… — Nicole Beharie
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. — David Baldacci
I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are… — Michael Cerveris
Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track. — Freddy Adu
I don't like to have really any expectations for myself. — Lee DeWyze
You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a… — Jenna Fischer
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from… — Joshua Ferris
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always… — Brad Grey
It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones. — Ann Brashares
You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations… — Jethro Tull
The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. — Leonard Cohen
Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more… — Doug Flutie
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural. — Ian Hamilton Finlay
When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations. — Matthew William Goode
The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New… — Rachel Gibson
Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations. — Jonathan Haidt
Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories. — Jeremy Irvine
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences… — Bong Joon-ho
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So,… — Derek Jacobi
In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way… — Delia Ephron

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