Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.
Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things that need to be in the film at certain points, whether it be relationships or certain costume aspects.
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it.
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.
Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.
The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.
To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.
Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.
My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.
