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• [Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.

  Sarah Moon

  Photography, Eye, Grace

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• In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We're not losers.

  Christopher Titus

  Party, Mean, Cake

  "Titus / The Surprise Party". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• When I was in Dutch and Italian football, a lot of people looked at Manchester United, and when they were asked who was the best player, a lot of them said Paul Scholes. Much of what he did looked simple, but actually it was quite hard. Invariably he controlled the ball instantly and passed it straight on, keeping the game moving. He made inch-perfect passes across the pitch; he saw the gaps and could play the ball through them. So it didn't surprise me that so many top-class international footballers recognized his quality.

  Edwin van der Sar

  Football, Moving, Simple

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• The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Surprise

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• When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

  Todd Solondz

  World, Littles, Way

  "'Wiener-Dog': Director Todd Solondz Explains Why It Took a Few Years to Make This Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2016.

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• Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

  Elinor Glyn

  Running, Ambition, Animal

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• Nothing surprises me anymore. We'll keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to keep going forward with solutions that I want to see applied to this great country, the challenges that we're facing. And things like that [e-mails as governor published] are going to be perhaps a distraction for others. They won't distract me.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Challenges, Want

  "Exclusive: Sarah Palin on U.S. Economy, National Bus Tour". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 5, 2011.

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• I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Strange Person, Next, Sometimes

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...went to a bar for a few drinks. The bartender asked what I wanted. "Surprise me", I said. So he showed me a naked picture of my wife.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Naked, Bars

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• What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"

  Yoko Ono

  Attitude, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

  John Cusack

  Surprise, Plans, Universe

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• In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Player, Quality

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• If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

  Hillary Clinton

  Beautiful, Fighting, Thinking

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

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• Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.

  John Vanderslice

  Suicide, Strong, Coffee

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• If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn't surprise me. It would be just like Him. It would be totally in keeping with His generous character... Exorbitant. Excessive. Extravagant in grace after grace. Of all the dazzling discoveries and ecstatic pleasures heaven will hold for us, the potential of seeing Scrappy would be pure whimsy-utterly, joyfully, surprisingly superfluous... Heaven is going to be a place that will refract and reflect in as many ways as possible the goodness and joy of our great God, who delights in lavishing love on His children.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Children, Character, Discovery

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• I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up many mornings, and it almost wouldn't surprise me if I woke up from it and it was all a dream.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Morning, Wake Up

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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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 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, Surprise, My Favorite

  Source: nudge-book.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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• Angels emerge from the presence of God and worship of God, are sent on mission for our redemption, so it doesn't surprise me to read in the Bible of angels leading us into the presence of God in worship.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, Redemption, Worship

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Giving, Actors, Surprise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love investigating the natural world, and I find a lot of truths there, truths about survival and beauty - nature continually surprises me (amazing how clever a woodchuck is, amazing how plants roots can break up concrete, amazing how delicious the thimbleberry is!).

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Clever, Survival, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a poet. How can I be so old and not know? I have always been deeply grateful for the urge to write, the desire to create, that's certain. Writing has always been the way I make sense of life. Perhaps my poems define me, rather than the other way around. They do constantly surprise me.

  Connie Wanek

  Grateful, Writing, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I prefer to feel uncomfortable by participating in projects were I am not the specialist. I am always the one who knows nothing. Playing with jazzmen and knowing nothing about jazz. Playing pop music and knowing nothing about how to structure a pop song. And the funny thing, which still surprises me, is that I continue to be invited to play by new people, from different areas, every day.

  Gaspar Claus

  Song, People, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The Democrats are losing. And look, folks, I don't mean to beat a dead horse here. I'm not doing anything other than pointing out what's actually factually happening. I'm not drawing any inferences from it. The Democrats are actually losing as themselves. They are losing elections if they are honest about what they want to do. It doesn't surprise me at all that Jon Ossoff would be running around.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Horse, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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