Element Of Surprise Quotes - Page 2

• Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

  Mark Taimanov

  Play, Elements, Opponents

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• I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Stories, Elements, Way

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• This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

  E. M. Forster

  Plot, Elements, Detectives

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.132, RosettaBooks

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• Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Elements, Way

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• Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.

  Jim Cornette

  Wrestling, Elements, Tables

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• I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Phones, Next Day

  "Elton John, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt Interview, Gnomeo & Juliet". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.

  Dorothy Cottrell

  Baby, Interesting, Elements

  Dorothy Cottrell (1929). “The Singing Gold”

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• The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Essence, Mind

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

  Robin Morgan

  Tragedy, Actors, Elements

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media

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• The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Hero, Heart

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ Welcome to the Hellmouth". DVD Commentary, 1997.

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• For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

  Arjun Rampal

  Important, Trying, Elements

  "A Minute With: Arjun Rampal on 'Satyagraha'". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, in.reuters.com. August 21, 2013.

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• The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

  M. Ward

  Elements, Surprise, Capture

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• Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Fun, Elements, Done

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

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• Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.

  Eddie Izzard

  War, Wings, Elements

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Race, Understanding

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• Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

  David Spade

  Elements, Surprise, Hopefully

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