You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.
The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also - and this is the awesome part - now there are fans, too!
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.
I love doing action. Since I'm not 21, there's some, 'Let me get to the gym so I can do it.' But I love to defy expectations.
Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.
Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.
Real Madrid has a lot of high expectations, not only in terms of results but also with nice football and a lot of goals.
I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
Globalization has enriched the planet beyond belief, leading to ever-increased demands of perfection. And thanks to 24/7 communications, we all instantaneously know when these expectations aren't met.
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.
Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.
This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.
Growing up, there was a lot of pressure to live up to certain expectations and money as if I was rich and stuff. It was a bit of a facade.
It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.
I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.
I view edge providers as a significant bright spot in our struggling economy. They are tirelessly innovating, growing, and meeting - often exceeding - consumer expectations.
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.
I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
If you take the expectations off of what we're supposed to do and just play free, I think that allows you to play to the best of your ability.
Many people look forward to my work, and I hope to live up to expectations and work at a high level.
I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.
...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
I am a bad planner, I cannot really plan my future, so I am keeping my expectations very grounded.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well.
The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on customers. Innovation begins with their needs and expectations.
You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.
I'm thankful that I was able to show a better side of me in acting, and I hope that you'll continue to have high expectations for me.
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.
Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
I love L.A. Some people arrive with big expectations and are inevitably disappointed, but I can audition in the day, which can be gruelling and lonely, but then gig and be creative in the evenings.
If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.
...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
I had little or no expectations coming in. I was thrilled when I was drafted in the first round because that meant I was going to be given a full year's chance to make the team.
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
When you glorify yourself to the point where you can't relate to a regular person, then you distort your expectations and your values.
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.
I think after a few years and working on so many projects, you don't get jaded but the level of your expectations is minimal, especially the way the music industry is today.
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.
I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.
I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.
Monetary policy should remain data dependent, be well communicated, and ensure that inflation expectations remain anchored.
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