Big Surprises Quotes

• Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

  Steven Amsterdam

  Hands, Attention, Fiction

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• A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

  Wilson Mizner

  Drama, Criticism, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.

  Randy Newman

  Team, America, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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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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• 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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• Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opportunity, Errors, Political

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.149, Random House

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• Open your eyes, I've got a big surprise, it will feel alright, I want to make your motor run.

  Meat Loaf

  Running, Sex, Eye

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• For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you're free. You start in the corner and you don't know where it leads you. I have no message, I have nothing I want to tell, I just start and I see where it leads, and it's a big surprise and relief if it's good. That's the ideal state for filmmaking.

  Jørgen Leth

  Strong, Relief, Links

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They're in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.

  Harry Shearer

  Believe, Night, Men

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• We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this.

  Marion Nestle

  Mean, Ideas, Fda

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• aken’ is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

  Olivier Megaton

  Taken, Surprise, Projects

  "Olivier Megaton Admits ‘Colombiana’ Inspired By Luc Besson’s Unmade ‘The Professional’ Sequel Script" by Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. August 25, 2011.

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• I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.

  Rhys Darby

  Drama, Thinking, Auditions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose.

  Peter Heller

  Moon, Circles, Earth

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.4, Vintage

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• Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.

  Robert B. Weide

  Quirky, Answers, Surprise

  "Director Robert Weide Talks WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, and His Kurt Vonnegut Documentary". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.

  Julie Chen

  Brother, Doors, Criticism

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• The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.

  Julio Cortazar

  Order, Rupture, Surprise

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• I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.

  Meg Cabot

  Hands, Feelings, Lame

  Meg Cabot (2008). “All American Girl”, p.205, Pan Macmillan

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• Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that, but I accepted what [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell and the others said. But it took me just a matter of a few months to realize it was a bad mistake, and my record speaks for itself. I've spoken out against what was going on, not once, not twice, but lots of times. And I'm sorry that I was misled, but I was, and it was a mistake for me to vote for that war.

  Harry Reid

  Sorry, Military, War

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• The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Kind, Surprise

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• Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

  Stephen Colbert

  Surprise, Bigs, Repeats

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• My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.

  Rumer Willis

  Waiting, Parent, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Garden, Twists

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• It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Believe, Answers, Surprise

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• This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.

  Banksy

  Men, Awards, House

  "Banksy Request to Appear at the Oscars in Disguise Rejected" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 21, 2011.

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• I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

  Neil Armstrong

  Dream, Moon, Surprise

  "Neil Armstrong Dead: First Man On The Moon Dies At 82", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2012.

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