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I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it. — Justin Chon

She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself. — Sandra Kitt

They'd never commented on it. I don't know why I'd ever expected them to. Groaning, — Sarah J. Maas

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade. — Ozzy Osbourne

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path. — Mindy Grossman

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art. — Tom Shadyac

I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable. — W. Somerset Maugham

People tend to say, 'You're not as fat or as ugly as I expected.' I never know how to reply. It's a bit of a slap, but they don't mean it, I'm sure. — Siobhan Finneran

If she expected me to apologize she was going to be sorely disappointed.
I'd never be sorry for kissing her. — Lisa Kessler

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. — John Dryden

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living. — Lynn Shelton

Look closer. You probably have friends in places you never expected. — Kiera Cass

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?"
"Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to. — Lloyd Alexander

You are everything I never expected. Never anticipated. Everything I never knew I'd need. — A.L. Jackson

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected. — Michael Scheuer

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get. — Michael Specter

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected. — Rob Corddry

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. — Arthur C. Clarke

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do. — Russell Crowe

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege. — Bob Ainsworth

Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected. — Phil Klay

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this. — Alfredo Stroessner

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30. — Gloria Steinem

I never expected there to be so much death in my life.'
I. C. Williams. — Iain Cameron Williams

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird' ... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. — Harper Lee

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers. — Jerry Moran

A girl has to dream and expect more. If women expected nothing from men, men would never amount to much. — Natasha Boyd

I never expected anything to be given to me. — Taylor Swift

I never expected to live this long. — Bob Saget

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. — Will Rogers

I hear myself gasp, As if I expected a different ending. As if once I hear it enough times, the story will change. It never does — Marie Lu

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick. — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected. — Eric S. Raymond

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. — Shawn Johnson

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship. — Robert Battle

I'd seen enough grief as a priest to know that people never really moved on, at least not in the linear, segmented way our culture expected people to. — Sierra Simone

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly. — David Sedaris

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night. — O. Winston Link

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected. — Cassandra Clare

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks. — David Livermore

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened. — Audrey Hepburn

That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness. — Alice Hoffman

Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to. — Kristy Hinze

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything! — Mark Hamill

Never settle up for something that is lesser than what you expected. — Anamika Mishra

School did prepare a young person for life, but never in the ways parents expected. — Emma Jane Holloway

I never expected to be anybody important. — Elvis Presley

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge. — Peter Higgs

Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win. — Jade Jones

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner. — Vernon A. Walters

And he'd definitely never expected to ever have to tell someone, "All right, no killing and eating me, okay? I'm ready to go. — S.J. Kincaid

I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab. — Peggy Orenstein

Things never come when they are expected. — Agatha Christie

I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life. — Jennifer Garner

My stint with 'Ally McBeal' is something I never planned nor expected. — Vonda Shepard

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. — Dan Savage

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. — Mary MacLane

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected. — Mitt Romney

I should never have expected loyalty from a Douglas," he spat out. He turned his back on her and went to the window. — Margaret Mallory

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. — Erin Wasson

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything. — Victoria Beckham

Death by hanging ... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right. — Arthur Seyss-Inquart

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction. — Condoleezza Rice

If someone does not expect or is not expected to achieve, then they never will. — Martin Pistorius

I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died. — Melissa Bank

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do. — Ruben Studdard

On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far — Cher Lloyd

I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. — Sophia Loren

Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."
The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time. — P.L. Travers

Evan never reacted the way I expected, but that was something that had always drawn me to him. And that hadn't changed. — Rebecca Donovan

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me. — Courtney Love

Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected. — Squire Rushnell

Just wait. Someone's going to come along, someone you never expected, someone who needs you because you're you. — Tim Tharp

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher. — Paul Newman

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong. — Giuliana Rancic

I wanted to jump, Sam, but I never once expected the fall to go up. — Aly Martinez

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor. — Billy Bob Thornton

Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected. — Lauren Slater

I never expected my story to change, but it did. Stories tend to do that; you go out searching for something and come back with something different. — Katy Evans

I'm afraid of losing you, I never expected I could be so stupidly afraid of losing you. — Sara Baume

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy. — Anne Rice

How weak am I, that I could shed tears at this reception! I who have never experienced anything else; who have never expected anything else. — Charles Dickens

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day. — Sarah Waters

His lips landed on mine in a kiss I never would have expected. — Anonymous

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business. — Christopher Atkins

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys. — Stanislas Wawrinka

It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that. — Corbin Bleu

You never know what will be expected of you, so you just go out and play. — Manu Ginobili

I never really expected to be controversial. — B.F. Skinner

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make! — Clay Aiken

That was the recipe of our relationship, I think. We gave each other what we never expected to find. — Ian Caldwell

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion. — Frederick Scott Oliver

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else. — Catherine Deneuve

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album. — Patti Smith

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The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound. — J.K. Rowling

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be. — Cinda Williams Chima

He knew from being capo you never miss giving a consequence when it is expected. — Renee Rose

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did. — Kapil Dev

It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun. — Mike McCarthy