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"Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."

"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."

"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."

"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."

"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."

"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."

"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them."

"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."

"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."
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"There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it."

"I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have."

"It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night."

"We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring."

"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time."
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