Quotes About Expectations

Parte de la arrogancia de la juventud (bueno, digo juventud por decir algo)radica en la suposición de que tus padres dejarán todo lo que estén haciendo y te recibirán con los brazos abiertos en cuanto tú decidas aparecer.

Wise people will say Daniel should like me just as I am, but I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure. I am going to cancel and spend the evening eating doughnuts in a cardigan with egg on it.

The trouble with trying to go out with people when you get older is that everything becomes so loaded.

Wise people will say Daniel should like me just as I am, but I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.

However, on glimpsing in shop window realized outfit insane. Now am on bus, remember also that corset-ike nature of dress is torture when sitting down. One's rolls of fat are squezzed together like dough being kneaded in a food processor.

Trentaine : Les hommes sont en position de pouvoir. Je pense sincèrement que la trentaine est l'âge le pire pour une femme côté rencontres : le tic-tac de l'horloge biologique très injuste se fait entendre de plus en plus fort.

Oh, Tuhan. Besok Hari Valentine. Mengapa? Mengapa? Mengapa seluruh dunia diperlengkapi untuk menjadikan orang yang tidak terlibat asmara merasa tolol, padahal semua orang tahu percintaan tidak berjalan lancar. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding hlm.76

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting 'Cathy' and banging your head against a tree.

I sat, head down, quivering furiously at their inferences of female sell-by dates and life as game of musical chairs where girls without a chair/man when the music stops/they pass thirty are 'out.' Huh. As if.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

If I don't work very often, it's because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full.

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

I've written six seasons of a TV show with great help from an incredible staff of writers and other collaborators, but I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I've kind of freed myself of the expectation that I ever will.

When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get them. And now I'm in my early thirties, and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part?' I was that 24-year-old once. I can't be upset about it; it's the way things are.

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don't get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.

We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.

I have no problem breaking stereotypes. And proving people wrong - it's actually quite fun.

No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.

You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.