#assumed

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. ↗

— Don Ellis

#assumed #audience #come #compromising #expect

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen. ↗

— Alan Alda

#assumed #badly #because #box #corner

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me. ↗

— Bea Arthur

#assumed #happy #i #joan #just

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death. ↗

— George P. Baker

#come #death #elizabethan #ending #far

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#any #assumed #desire #film #film actor

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. ↗

— John Updike

#assumed #century #generally #had #his

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#both #character #civil #concerning #considerably

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#assume #assumed #care #children #custom

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#assumed #books #commonly #condemns #end

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#disguises #insincere #period #personalities #sincerely