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"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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"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.)"
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."
Artist

"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that."
Car

"A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire."
Life

"As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true."
Artist

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
Architecture

"The problem with prototypes is they don't always work."
Work

"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways."
Art

"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."
Work

"I think women are excellent social critics."
Woman

"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."
Art
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