- Nov 07, 2020
Surprise Quotes
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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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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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When we began to tour, no one expected me to be a part of the band, so I used that as a tool, and would start the set off-stage or in the audience, as a surprise, because no one expected this little girl to get up and rock the way I do.
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People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.
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So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.
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The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.
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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
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My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
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I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
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I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
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When I was working on the al-Zawahiri piece, a large part of it published in 'The New Yorker' in 2002, I had spoken to a lot of Zawahiri's friends, people who had been in prison with him, people that had been in al-Jihad with him. And quite to my surprise, they liked that article a lot.
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I miss the classroom and the bit I miss the most is the one-on-one personal interactions with the students, those moments when they surprise you with their insightfulness, or their cheekiness.
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It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.
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The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.
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In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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.