Surprising Quotes - Page 19

• We're all so jaded. We've seen so many movies. We know what's going to happen in every single movie. I mean, there are some movies where I'm like why do I even need to keep watching? And so, if you can make a movie in which you're completely surprising the audience left and right, and left and right, then you've won. If a jaded film critic or reporter or an audience is like, "I didn't see that one coming," that to me is like a victory.

  Richard Shepard

  Mean, Film Critics, Victory

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Having lots of members of my family who were in ministry in one form or another, I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that at quite an early age, I was very, very conscious personally of the love of God.

  N. T. Wright

  Age, Ministry, God Love

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

  Carrie Fisher

  Acting, Alcoholics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is a way of the Spirit unknown to the natural mind. No barrier can keep you from finding His best except an unyielded will. As long as it is your inmost desire to know the will of God and do it, He Himself will guide and direct in all sorts of surprising ways.

  Frances J Roberts

  Long, Mind, Desire

  Frances J. Roberts (2013). “Total Love”, p.53, Barbour Publishing

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• Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Should, Inevitable

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• I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I'm more open to hearing stuff that is surprising and unexpected. That I'm actually involved in an investigation, through monologue, at times.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Agendas, Stuff

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited.

  Kate del Castillo

  Everyday, Excited, Rhythm

  Interview with Renee Ylizaliturri, www.indiewire.com. September 18, 2013.

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• It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

  Gwen Ifill

  Real, Television, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.

  Amanda Ripley

  Worst Moments, People, Focus

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

  Phil Elvrum

  Thinking, Careers, Assumption

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I think that one of the things that we've seen over time, especially with progressive social movements, is most of them - it's surprising to people - are sort of driven by that.

  Eugene Puryear

  Thinking, People, Movement

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I like [ Rick] Santorum personally and respect him, but you wouldn't say that he was really that strong of an opponent. At the end of the day it wasn't like [Ronald] Reagan running against [George] Bush, or [George W.] Bush against [John] McCain, even. It's sort of surprising that Romney had as much trouble as he did, and I think it shows a weakness in appeal to those voters.

  William Kristol

  Running, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

  David Nevins

  Character, Rich, Shows

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• I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Discovery, Long, India

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• Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and wincing) from the first page? Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters, dried fish, and other surprising and original treasures. While Duncan sinks, the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment.

  Mameve Medwed

  Character, Clouds, Laughing

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• As brands become larger, the need to reach greater numbers of customers makes them less edgy and dilutes their unique positioning as they try to please everyone. It is therefore not surprising to find such brands go into a few years of decline before they are able to reinvent themselves.

  Nirmalya Kumar

  Unique, Years, Numbers

  "Test of a Great Brand: Does Anybody Hate You?" by Nirmalya Kumar, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2013.

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• If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Fake, News

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Home, Appreciate, Watches

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Work Out, People, Doubt

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• The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress.

  Venus Williams

  Tennis, Skins, Dresses

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• Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just such a quick, funny wit. I don't think most people would think that about him, and it was really surprising to me. But man, the guy had a brilliant wit.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Clever, Self, Games

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Kids, Adventure, Order

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• In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the difference between one Italian sculptor to the next. You know, this - these are things that we don't necessarily assume of people in sanctified light.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Italian, Differences

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• ...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that's wonderful . And what's even more wonderful in a way, is when you hear something that you know, and already think you have an opinion about, and then suddenly discover that it isn't what you thought it was, but something quite different, which makes it just as surprising as if you'd never heard it before. That's REALLY great!

  Fred Frith

  Thinking, Musical, Different

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