- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surprise Quotes
Most Famous Surprise Quotes of All Time!
The best art often lives in that space between what audiences expect and a well-placed surprise, a balance many creators say defines great work. Some describe preferring an honest, revealing atmosphere over tricking people with a concealed motive, themes explored further in our Always quotes.
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- Disturbance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea who Elektra was. When the producers asked me before I booked the job, I had to tell them. It was a great surprise when I actually got the job.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
- Biggest Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.
- Difficult Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we think about big records, a lot of producers are thinking of how to make it as standard as possible. I think those days are gone. I think you have to surprise the audience in 2015.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
- Nov 07, 2020
I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
Even a friendship built over decades can still hold room for genuine surprise when someone's success feels inevitable in hindsight. Spring itself gets described as quietly rehearsing its yearly surprise, a gentle reminder found throughout our Being, Life, and Me quotes.