Quotes About Expectations

Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

It's easy to think you have to fit some kind of mold.

It was me that was holding myself back because I felt like I had to fit into this mold of what people want to see.

What I'm trying to say is, I'm really happy I'm not a doctor. So, take that mom and dad.

My mom and dad weren't together, so I never thought I would get married.

Girls are hard. They're very hard. I love my son. I hear the relationship between mommy and son is the best. Who knows? My husband wants a girl, he really does.

My mom was one of the moms who was like, 'You are so handsome why aren't you modeling? I am handsome, but model... let's not get crazy.

I'm pretty sure the feeling of inadequacy is universal for moms.

The funniest is the moms who get really angry with me, and they bring their kid who's dressed like Deadpool, and he's 9 years old, and they're scolding me that their little kid can't enjoy Deadpool.

Moms or soon-to-be-moms put a lot of pressure on themselves.

The women here in Monaco don't like me, and so I have to watch everything I say and everything I do because they're so critical.

I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.

So while most people dealt with the scale every Monday at the Berea training facility nervous about how high the number was going to be, I was the one that was nervous about how low the number was going to be.

The facts are, the reality is, you can't really enjoy it. You win a football match and by the time you get to Saturday night, having a beer or a Chinese, you're already thinking about Monday morning, the next game.

One factor that favors easier adjustment in EMEs is that U.S. monetary policy normalization has been and should continue to be gradual, as long as the U.S. economy evolves roughly as expected.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

I don't believe footballers have to live like monks.

I think monogamy exists when you're of age. I'm not saying that's good, but in today's time, a female won't honestly get a full commitment until they're at least 25 or 26. That's not good, but that's how it is.

I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.

I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough.

When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.

Everybody overestimates what you can do in a day and underestimates what you can do in months of work.

When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

The problem that I find in 'MasterChef India' is that it doesn't look like 'MasterChef Australia.' It doesn't have that kind of mood.