Linda Perry Quotes

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

… minor incidents—the kind you can never really foresee—combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

Reality in the end proves unmanageable. It breaks in upon man’s conceptions, changes them, and finally destroys them.

For songs to be big, I don't think there's a certain formula to it.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.