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• My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Writing, Character

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• I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

  Andrew Cuomo

  Government, Surprise

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• To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Real, Wife, Choices

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• Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.

  Cesar Luis Menotti

  Letting Go, Football, Player

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• I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

  Russell Crowe

  Success, Surprise, Expected

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• Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.

  Siegfried Woldhek

  Heart, Eyebrows, Light

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• Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

  Brett Favre

  Surprise

  "Brett Favre surprised by reaction". www.espn.com. October 8, 2011.

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• Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried

  Yogi Berra

  Wife, Surprise, Yogi

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• The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

  Jay McInerney

  Book, Interesting, Surprise

  "Novelist Jay McInerney on Getting Your Novel Underway". Interview with Anne Bowling, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.

  Kevin Kline

  Kids, People, Sometimes

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• I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Long, Sometimes, Wonder

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

  Mario Balotelli

  Children, Responsibility, Example

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• I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

  Meles Zenawi

  Intelligent, Interesting, People

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• The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

  Henry Moore

  Artist, Trying, Shapes

  Henry Moore (1968). “Henry Spencer Moore”

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• It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Cities, People

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• It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

  Po Bronson

  Choices, Surprise

  Po Bronson (2013). “What Should I Do With My Life?”, p.21, Random House

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• The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of two hearts in counsel, both of which are feminine.

  Frances E. Willard

  Heart, Two, Support

  Frances E. Willard (2016). “Glimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.695, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.

  John Waters

  Kids, Feelings, Delight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  Adam Braun

  Office Space, Mean, School

  "Three Months Later - Learnings from the Greg Mortensen Controversy" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2011.

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• Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.

  Giovanna Cau

  Giving, Interviews, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way he sings, the way he wraps his voice around certain words, the way he backs off from melodic moments, the way he moves forward to grab something in a song that, were anybody else performing it, they would have no idea it was even there.

  Greil Marcus

  Song, Moving, Ideas

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.

  Arsene Wenger

  League, Surprise, Unbeaten

  "The Best of the Season". www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2003.

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• I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

  Katherine Waterston

  Surprise, Shocking

  "Springboard: ‘Inherent Vice’ Breakout Katherine Waterston Is Still Having Her ‘Pinch Me’ Moment". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 07, 2014.

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• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  Lance Henriksen

  Small Moments, Scripts, Fantasy

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