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• Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Character, Two

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

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• I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.

  James Arthur

  Fighting, Thinking, Stubborn

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement that was most commodifiable and when we look at the commodification of blackness we're looking at a phenomenon that's very profitable and it's connection with the rise of a black middle class I think is very obvious.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Class, Black

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I'm like a kid at Halloween.

  Sasha Grey

  Halloween, Kids, Simple

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• What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke up. That's an interesting phenomenon. It was even interesting back in the day. I mean, [we were] this glorified garage band. It was a great band, but it was not the kind of band you expected to become what it has.

  Slash

  Mean, Gun, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

  Grant Morrison

  Grateful, Writing, Unorthodox

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals and I never do that kind of stuff I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

  Kate del Castillo

  Goal, Stuff, Tomorrow

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."

  Katy Butler

  Medical Problems, Years, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

  Larry Gagosian

  Play Hard, Stuff, Surprise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When someone you love truly dies, you have to find them over and over again in the world, and I think you do that on a very psychic, unconscious level, and I think in some ways I was calling out to that spirit of my mother when I saw the fox. It doesn't surprise me it's in animals that I find my mother.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am a writer, or that people speak of me as a writer. I'm flattered, but I don't quite believe it.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Believe, People, Path

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film from last year. She's just an amazing actress. And I like her voice a lot - it didn't surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.

  Virginia Madsen

  Voice, Would Be, Like Her

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the priest or whoever the religious leader is. And that's what surprises me, that some people who find a huge value in these kinds of systems also seem to enjoy ILLUSIONS. I can't figure it out.

  Richard Bach

  Religious, Believe, People

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• The students always, always surprise me.

  Dorianne Laux

  Students, Surprise

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• With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.

  John Maus

  Fall, Writing, Surprise

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Unexpected, Surprise

  Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Firsts, Musician, Looks

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• Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Surprise, Christ, Lord

  "Venetian Epigrams". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jerome Rothenberg, 1790.

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• Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

  Brian Selznick

  Writing, Doe, Surprise

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• It doesn't surprise me that people can't see beyond my image. It's amazing, but I can understand it. That's what image is for. But it's never a problem for me. It's only a problem for them. I don't really care. I do what I want regardless.

  Grace Jones

  People, Care, Want

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• I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Grief, Character, Writing

  Interview with Crystal Wilkinson, appalachianheritage.net. November 20, 2014.

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• Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."

  James Cromwell

  Nice, Surprise, Film

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• I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Fashion, Party

  Remarks by the President in Q&A with David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 10, 2014.

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• I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview "wrong."

  Stephen Colbert

  Writing, Interviews, Surprise

  "Working" with David Plotz, www.slate.com. October 17, 2014.

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• I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

  Maya Angelou

  Years, Twenties, Fifty

  Source: therumpus.net

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