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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

~Dane Cook

Topics: Anymore Anyone Anything Benefit Else Exceed Expectations Just My Own Own Want

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Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

~Daniel H. Wilson

Topics: Audacity Better Build Elevator Expectations Go Hand Hotel Luckily More Naive Never Otherwise Scientists Some Space Try Underwater Unreasonable Would Young

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Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

~Daniel Johns

Topics: Changed Dramatically Expectations First Our Record Records Since Though

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There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Always Average Average Person Expectations Guidelines People Person Really Surprise Thing Unknown

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It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Expectations Good Good Place Hope Place You

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Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.'

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Blurred David Depicted Distant Distinctions Expectations Give John Life Low Novels Often Pictures Places Recent Say Set Those Tokyo Trade Travel Unlike Us Ward Water Way Writing

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Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

~David Ayer

Topics: Approval Being Best Between Color Creative Creativity Different Everything Expectations Filmmakers Genre Get Hard Hard Time Hated Knock Lines List Me Out Park Something Time Will You

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But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

~David Baldacci

Topics: Able About Anything Expectations Much Myself Paralyze Publishers Too Too Much Worried Write

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The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.

~David Bergen

Topics: Accepted Better Exciting Expectations Experience First Matches Most Other Perhaps Piece Publishing Raised Sets Starts Than Think Truth Writing

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Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

~David Chang

Topics: Critics Everyone Exceed Expectations Facade Just Me Our

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