Surprise Quotes - Page 6

• When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.

  Aja Naomi King

  New York, Independent, Doors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Holiday, Window, Crew

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• Probably not a surprise that, among the people of Mexico, just 4 percent say that they have a positive opinion of [Donald] Trump. Seventy-five percent say they have a negative opinion.

  Steve Kornacki

  People, Negative, Mexico

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

  Edward Albee

  Interest, Surprise Me

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A little ego can be quite entertaining. But [Alessandro Michele is] a very humble, gentle, kind person. And I think that his humanity would probably surprise a lot of people, because he's so confident and bold in the choices that he makes.

  Jared Leto

  Humble, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild Angels. Jack Nicholson, all of them, they all had these images that Roger Corman fueled, and Easy Rider, it was a big surprise to understand how much creative influence Roger had. A lot of people dismiss him as just launching famous people's careers or being a penny pinching producer, but he's so much more than that.

  Alex Stapleton

  Angel, Men, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• We talked a lot with the musician. And for now there are few options, and I give him few weeks to come and surprise me with something. I don't want to start and say, okay here is what I want. Because maybe he has an idea that is better than mine.

  Luc Besson

  Ideas, Giving, Musician

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.

  Luc Besson

  Artist, Levels, Involvement

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I was sort of retired, you could say. During that process, I was recording here and there. I put out several songs expressing myself to the fans and letting them know of my whereabouts and what I was doing. I gave them insight into my situation. To my surprise, the fans have been very supporting and understanding.

  Tony Sunshine

  Song, Understanding, Here And There

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

  Jodi Picoult

  Events, My Favorite, Now And Then

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.

  Peter Buffett

  Moving, Hard Work, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

  Rakim

  Style, Albums, Expecting

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Sometimes my husband will surprise me with flowers for no reason. Unexpected romantic gestures are very important and keep things exciting.

  Adriana Lima

  Husband, Flower, Important

  Source: www.pretapregnant.com

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• Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us.

  Paul Kengor

  Inspiration, President, Gerald Ford

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush has internalized the founders' belief that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with a certain inherent yearning for freedom. In turn, Bush has applied this to his vision for the Middle East, believing that a democratic transformation in that region is possible, given that inherent desire for liberty within all hearts, including the hearts of Arab Muslims. People disagree with that, which is fine, but that's the Bush vision.

  Paul Kengor

  Believe, Heart, Eight

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• [Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.

  Brent Spiner

  Sweet, Jobs, Independence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So it was a really pleasant surprise when [Independence Day] turned out to be a successful film. I don't know if you've heard that they're going to be re-releasing it next Fourth of July in 3-D. I've actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.

  Brent Spiner

  Fun, Smart, Successful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes I will give some very vague directions to the designer that I'm working with on a particular project and they'll come back and surprise me with something that really shows a lot of their own 'hand' in it. Other times I'll have a really clear idea about how I want it done and I'll draw it out pretty precisely and say 'make it look exactly like this' and it will be something where it looks like I can say it was 'fully my design'. The work can also range between the two.

  Michael Bierut

  Hands, Ideas, Two

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in mythological and perhaps in very real terms - of mixed innocence and sin. It is seen by townsfolk as idyllic, lazy, free of urban crime and social problems. But those who grow up in the country can tell stories that often surprise those who grow up in the towns.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Country, Growing Up, Real

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Tragedy, March, Caught

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Book, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Numbers, America

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

  Megan Chance

  Real, Book, Character

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

  David Remnick

  Disaster, Nations

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When my song "Danny Glover" leaked, I was a little bummed, but it finally allowed Kanye West [to listen]. One of my biggest surprises was his reaction: he liked [it] and he said he wanted to make a record together.

  Young Thug

  Song, Together, West

  Source: theurbandaily.com

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