Surprising Quotes - Page 26

• You have to keep surprising your audience.

  Shane Black

  Audience

  "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Often Can, People

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• It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

  Aimee Bender

  Moments, Rescue, Lowest

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• Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Long, Life Is, Enough

  Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton

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• My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they're fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.

  Tom Barbash

  Character, Fighting, Loss

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do dark [humor]. I like people who are silly and weird and people who are surprising and good at what they do.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Silly, Dark, People

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

  Chad Harbach

  Notebook, Running, Block

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• God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

  David Platt

  Tragedy, Triumph, Use

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• God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

  Emily Dickinson

  God, Unique, Surprise

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.367, Courier Corporation

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• Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

  Joseph Addison

  May, Action, Notoriety

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.279

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• What's surprising to me now is that now that I'm talking to a lot of women about this, so many women are doing this. Straight women, lesbian women, bisexual women, poor women, White women, immigrant women. This does not affect one group.

  Staceyann Chin

  Bisexual, Talking, White

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.

  Aubrey Plaza

  People, Different, Growing

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• I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline - and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours - there was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn't censored.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Father, Book, Reading

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back to the 19th century. I was shocked to find what I would describe as far more utopian ideas in the 19th century than in the 20th century. Not only were the ideas so extreme, but surprising people were adopting them.

  Christine Jennings

  Ideas, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.

  Toni Jerrman

  Wall, Issues, Doors

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

  David Harewood

  Sexy, Fashion, New York

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• I've recommended girls for jobs that I had a different part in, and agents have been like, "No, don't ..."It's so surprising to me.

  Winona Ryder

  Girl, Jobs, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have a name for the true beliefs which are the typical product of these reliable capacities. They call them items of knowledge. So I argue that talk of knowledge may thereby be seen to be embedded within a successful empirical theory.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Successful, Names, Acquisition

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My policy on energy is... to make America the largest energy producer in the world. I think we can get there, in 10 or 15 years. That will bring back manufacturing of certain high-energy intensive industries. It'll bring back jobs. It'll create a surprising economic revitalization of this country.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  "Why Bain matters". Interview with Mark Halperin, www.washingtonexaminer.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

  Hayley Williams

  Hard Work, Needs, Band

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• I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch stand-up comedy.

  Gary Gulman

  Thinking, People, Comedian

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• It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Genius, Movement, Patterns

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• Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

  Bill Watterson

  Essence, Surprise

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• It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Thinking, Hands, Mind

  R. L. LaFevers (2008). “Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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