Quotes About Expectation

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

To me, if I'm reading a fantastic story or I go on a nice first date and I have a wonderful time, I'm not gonna complain because it didn't work out. I'm gonna go on a second date.

What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'

This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.