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"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
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"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens."
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"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."
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"We tend to live up to our expectations."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
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"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."
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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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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."
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"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
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"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."
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"I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction."
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"In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love."
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"When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed."
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"The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around."
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"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world."
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"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example."
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"Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit."
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"The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals."
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"It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then."
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