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I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: Always Audience Exactly Exactly What Expectation Express Film High Know Medium Think Through Trying Ultimately Very Will You Your I Think

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I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

~Ayad Akhtar

Topics: About Art Audience Avoid Constraints Creative Engagement Excited Expectation Feeling Industry Inside Kind Longer Making Me Respond Self-Expression Should Some Started Thing Understand Way Work World

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The thing with 'Alphas' is that, even though it's sci-fi, I run into lots of people that have watched the show for various reasons. They're like, 'I had no expectation, and I'm totally blown away and fascinated.'

~Azita Ghanizada

Topics: Away Blown Blown Away Even Expectation Fascinated Had Like Lots People Reasons Run Sci-Fi Show Thing Though Totally Various Various Reasons Watched

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I've been really pleasantly surprised by 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I'd never really heard of that gang before, that comic series before. And I think when you go into those, watching those sort of films, you watch them with no expectation as well, so you're always kind of pleasantly surprised, I think.

~Benedict Wong

Topics: Always Been Before Comic Expectation Films Galaxy Gang Go Guardians Heard Kind Never Pleasantly Really Series Sort Surprised Them Think Those Watch Watching Well You I Think

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

~Beth Simone Noveck

Topics: Better Creating Distance Enabling Expectation Governing Ourselves Same Technologies Together Us Work Work Together

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Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Ate Basic Changed Confidence Duck Eat Else Expectation Find Hundred Hundred Years Now Recipe Restaurant Served Since Someone Tomorrow Tour Will Years Years Ago You Yourself

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It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: About Anxious Appropriate Care Continue Every Exist Expectation Future Literature Shifting Things Totally Will World You

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There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Any Anybody Call Editor Ever Expectation Frequently Given Going Happens Knowing Like Likely Manuscript Me Might Morning Most Next Next Morning Project Say Send Sent Them Think Times Tolerate Up

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The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Against Brilliant Disappointing Expectation First Improvement Like Literary Lives Measured Novel Often Second Seems Unfair Up

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Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: Any Anything Company Deliver Emails Expectation Google Hand Information Letter Maybe Privacy Reasonable Searches Send Share Wife

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