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I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
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I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
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That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.


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I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.


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Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
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Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!
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I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
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I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.
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I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.
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My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
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I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.


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Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.


Jonathan Coe
I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.
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Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
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Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.


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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.


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Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.


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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
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