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As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Always Book Buy Chris Come Contents Cover Covers Did Disappointing Enormous Going Kid Lived Magnificent Never Novels Over Planet Slightly Think Up Which You

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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Always Could Disappointing Down Form Little Master Really See Terms

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I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.

~Alec Berg

Topics: Certainly Disappointing Enough Fear Higher Idiot Just Like Looking Motivation National People Television

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A number of people have read 'Two-Way Split' and made certain assumptions about what the author's like, and I'm highly disappointing to them. I don't drink, I don't eat meat; that's very disappointing for a hard-boiled writer.

~Allan Guthrie

Topics: About Assumptions Author Certain Disappointing Drink Eat Highly Like Made Meat Number People Read Split Them Two-Way Very Writer

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When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

~Andy Roddick

Topics: Away Back Come Disappointing Get Involved Kind Off Positive Really Right Right Away Something Want You

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I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

~Ang Lee

Topics: About Could Disappointing Drama Life Like Something

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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Before Between Day Disappointing Fear Feeling Francisco Full Gravy Hate Hoped March Most Peace Recent San San Francisco Somewhere Up Virginia Wake Wake Up Woke Woolf

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'Graceland' getting canceled was definitely a shock and disappointing for all of us. One minute it's this. The next minute it's that.

~Annie Ilonzeh

Topics: Definitely Disappointing Getting Minute Next One Minute Shock Us

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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

~Anthony Horowitz

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Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

~Atifete Jahjaga

Topics: Assert Better Build Complicated Create Democracy Disappointing Elections Exhilarating Hold Immediately Institutions Life Make Many Others Out Politics Revelation Rights Settle Turns

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