"We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape."

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Source : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.176, Wizards of the Coast

R. A. Salvatore

#Expectations Quotes #People Quotes #Burden Quotes

“I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.”
“To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.”
“Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.”
“I'm not looking for Miss Right, right now. I'm just sort of working on becoming Mr. Right.”
“Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.”

Source : "The Children of the Sky". Book by Vernor Vinge, 2011.
“Generally, I am just myself, a crazy John Belushi type. But I'm not comparing myself to him. I think I am against stereotype. Generally Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have none of those things.”

Source : "Bobby Lee On Comedy, Survival And Being ‘A Big, Sweaty Ball Of Flesh’". Interview With Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.
“I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.”
“When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence. You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.”

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