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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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I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.
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I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.
- Life
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Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
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My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide as being more grayish violet.
- Fall
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What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
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Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow's psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn't arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn't a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.
- Love
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I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.
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.