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"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
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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."
"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
"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."
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"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."
"I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul."
"My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son."
"It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being."
"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
"I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness."
"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
"I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor."
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