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When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations.
I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.
I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.
Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.
I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.
Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.
Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.
Expectations run immensely high in Croatia. We may only be a small country, but people expect us to be our best at every major tournament.
When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.
We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.
I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.
Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.
Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.
When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.
If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
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.
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.
The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
As women, we're busy. We're under stress and under pressure, and the expectations are so high for us, so the first thing to go is self-care.
I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.
You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it's not totally satisfied.
When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
I feel Arjun is one of the central characters of 'Mahabharata' and people have lots of expectations from me when I started working on the show.
Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.
Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.