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"I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."

"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."

"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."

"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."

"So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to."

"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."

"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."

"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."

"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them."

"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
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"Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year."

"I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either."

"If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever."

"You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator."
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