#expect

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people. ↗

— Marat Safin

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With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#blow #certain #conducting #expecting #experience

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. ↗

— George Santayana

#better #children #exertions #expected #happier

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect. ↗

— George Saunders

#am #been #confidence #dark #dark side

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. ↗

— Dan Savage

#bullied #effeminate #expectations #expression #gender

Men were never expected to be monogamous. ↗

— Dan Savage

#men #monogamous #never #were

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#expect #happen #i #i can #i think

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#around #bump #city #day #happen

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them. ↗

— Lee Scott

#behind #bounce #company #expect #i

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent