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"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated."
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"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."
"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
"Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire."
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
"The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same."
"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"
"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters."
"Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived."
"When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair."
"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."
"When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures."
"I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time."
"Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art."
"When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life."
"What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan."
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