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Quotes About Expectations

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.
~ Stephanie Klein
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
~ Adam Rapp
I ain't got a job cause I ain't got a car, so I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car.
~ Alice Cooper
Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.
~ Alice Mattison
I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.
~ Amanda Schull
I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.
~ Amy Poehler
When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.
~ Andy Daly
We did work together surprisingly well, more than I thought we would, because I didn't know before we met if we would actually work together really well, and we had a great time.
~ Angelina Jolie
I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
~ Ann Patchett
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
~ Anne Enright
Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.
~ Ari Graynor
Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
~ Asia Argento
Coaches and ownership are just like the fans on the street. They can always do it better, and they would always have done it differently when it doesn't work out.
~ Unknown
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.
~ Brad Grey
As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.
~ Brigid Schulte
With a lot of people you think you want to work with, you reach out to them about working and then realize you don't want to anymore because they're a complete dickhead.
~ Cakes da killa
Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.
~ Caroline Leavitt
Never work with kids or animals.
~ Cat Deeley
I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.
~ Charlie Dent
I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.
~ Chinua Achebe
I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.
~ Cliff Martinez
No one's dream job involves a kiosk.
~ Damien Fahey
College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.
~ Dan Rather
People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.
~ Dana Plato