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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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"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."

"Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time."

"What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."

"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."

"Expectations create and shape reality."

"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."

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

"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."

"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."

"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."

"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."

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