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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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"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
"The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."
"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
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