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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
"Expectation creates the reality."
"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.)"
"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
"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 call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
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"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."
"In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere."
"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up."
"Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step."
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