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"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."
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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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"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.)"
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"I'm a historian in my own mind."
Mind
"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."
Actor
"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
Actor
"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
Interest
"I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience."
Society
"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."
Expectation
"I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next."
Language
"I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie."
Character
"Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life."
Life
"I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced."
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