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It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.
One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.
I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
The very expectation that an actor loves to experiment becomes a shackle that is difficult to snap out of.
It is not easy to deliver a good film and take the expectation of the audience one level higher every time.
My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.
Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent.
Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
Everyone's expectation of New York is so big, and then you go, 'Oh, it really is like no other place on Earth!'
There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Once you start going out putting expectation levels on yourself, you lose the concept of trying to win the game.
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
Nobody puts more expectation on me than myself. That's just the heart of the competitor. That's how I was raised.
I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.
With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.
I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.
When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected.
I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.
Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning team.
The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
The expectation at United is to win every game and you have to be at your very best in training, never mind in the games.
There are still a lot of people who have the expectation that they're entitled to everything and want to pay for nothing.
It's always tough when you beat your expectation and you win 48, 49 games and you expect the next year to win 50, 55 games.
Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
As a director, I was apprehensive about the outcome of 'Kick.' As it scored well, it is my duty to get above that expectation.