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"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience."
"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."
"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
"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."
"We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people."
"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
"The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it."
"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
"Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire."
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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."
"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
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