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• I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.

  Ava DuVernay

  Mean, Eight, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

  Brad Bird

  Couple, Littles, Incredibles

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• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  Aaron Klug

  Plans

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• It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.

  Paul Reiser

  Eye, Thinking, Goal

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• Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.

  Francesca Marciano

  Hurt, Memories, Tired

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• Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question.

  Gilles Duceppe

  Country, Wall, Spring

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• You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Children, Parent, Risk

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• Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.

  Ellie Kemper

  Veins, Los Angeles, Unpredictable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Artist, Thinking, Different

  "Anselm Kiefer's tragic works carry traces of humor" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. January 22, 2012.

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• For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Violence, Comedy, Common

  "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

  Graham Nelson

  Different, Elements, Way

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• If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

  Ali Larter

  Running, Couple, Paris

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• Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Risk

  Alan Greenspan's speech at the Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. December 5, 1996.

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• I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Character, Thinking, People

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• See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Cancer, Opportunity, Ordinary Days

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• Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Leadership, Fate, Flames

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Perspective, Matter, Events

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.

  Rose Tremain

  Moving, Way, Moments

  Rose Tremain (1995). “Sacred Country”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

  Paul Theroux

  Now And Then, Traveler, Happens

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• It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.

  Henri Poincare

  Order, Values

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.620, Modern Library

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• The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Reality, May

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.102, Random House

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• All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

  Joe Johnston

  Real, Character, Black And White

  "'Captain America' director: 'This movie is going to surprise some people'". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

  Momofuku Ando

  Adversity, Greed, Cast Away

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• When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Running, Men, Years

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• What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Fun, Mean

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