Surprise Quotes - Page 37

• When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

  Kirk Douglas

  Over You, Get Over, Looking Back

  "We Are Spartacus" by Kirk Douglas, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I was in Jacques Brel Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with Jacques Brel doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

  Amanda McBroom

  Song, Guitar, Years

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

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• It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.

  Kevin Kline

  Kids, People, Sometimes

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• The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Men, Depth, Talent

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

  Danica McKellar

  May, Medical, Natural

  "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

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• What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

  Adrien Brody

  Thinking, Special You, Avant Garde

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

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• Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Way, Inevitable, Catastrophe

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• I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

  James Blunt

  Fun

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• It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

  Mario Balotelli

  Children, Responsibility, Example

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• It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

  Robert Ballard

  Sea, Black, Bottom

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• The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Color, Orange

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• I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

  Michael Cerveris

  People, Expectations, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  Sam Claflin

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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

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• I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

  Billy Childish

  New York, Play, Towns

  "Billy Childish Interview On Stuckism, Humor And Moustaches". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 08, 2013.

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• 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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• The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Film, Difficulty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

  Gina Carano

  Thinking, Want, Impossible

  "What MMA Hottie Gina Carano Wants in a Man". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. January 19, 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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• This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

  Irving Kahn

  Numbers, May, Valuable

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• Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

  Lynne Cheney

  Doors, Sky, Civilization

  Lynne Cheney (2009). “Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Awards, Caught

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• To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

  Robert Cailliau

  Numbers, Google, Explosions

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• And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Artist, Thinking, People

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

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• Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Trying, Use, Elements

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  Barry Diller

  World, Want

  "Barry Diller To Time Warner: Name Your Price For AOL". Interview with Abbey Klaassen, adage.com. November 12, 2007.

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