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• It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Art, Writing, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Keanu Reeves learned a lot, respecting the culture. I was surprised when I first met him. He knew a lot already and he learned a lot. And also he learned Japanese. It's incredible. On the set, switching between the Japanese and English, even for us, is very hard. It's complicated. But the first time Keanu spoke in Japanese it was a very important scene between us, and more than the dialogue's meaning, I was moved. His energy for the film, completely perfect Japanese pronunciation. It was moving, surprising, respecting.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Moving, Perfect, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• ... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under a certain description - or a world seen from a certain perspective.

  Max Black

  Believe, Reality, Perspective

  Max Black (1990). “Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles”

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• The often-surprising truth for many people is that we all integrate faith into our work, but most of the time we're completely unaware of what faith underlies our attitudes and responses to our work.

  David Kim

  Attitude, People, Integrating

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

  Neil Young

  Careers, Patterns, Sun

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• I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Careers, Ideas

  "Madonna On A Mission". Parade Interview, parade.com. June 24, 2008.

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• Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that it's surprising. It's surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Home, Looks, Brooklyn

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.

  Peter Adamson

  Believe, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

  Jerry Garcia

  Art, Thinking, Music Is

  Source: medium.com

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• One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

  Donal Logue

  Kids, School, Years

  "Donal Logue Talks GOTHAM, Getting Renewed for Season 2 and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 9, 2015.

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• I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

  Ai Weiwei

  New York, Phones, Notes

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• Given [Donald] Trump's surprising recent election as president of the United States, his fate and that of the Bomb are about to become seriously and dangerously intertwined with the fate of all humanity.

  David Krieger

  Fate, Humanity, President

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself.

  Mara Liasson

  Race, Aftermath, Election

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I tend to be more interested in the trend pieces than who got a licensing deal for sunglasses, but that's not surprising.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Trends, Sunglasses, Pieces

  Source: wwd.com

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• It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Character, Stage

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.

  Dale Jamieson

  Climate, Addresses, Problem

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.

  Greta Christina

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Honesty

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• The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Simple, Eyebrows, Way

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• Most players unfortunately go to the casinos with an attitude that makes it even easier for casinos to psyche them into losing. Most except to lose; therefore, it's not too surprising when they achieve their goal.

  Henry Tamburin

  Attitude, Player, Goal

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• When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

  William Osler

  Planning, Fit, Schemes

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• Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Garden, Earth, Wonderful

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• Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.

  Elmina Shepard Taylor

  Girl, Grace, Pace

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• It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.

  Edward Lazear

  Perception, Littles, Economy

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• The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it would be surprising if it weren't - indeed it would be wrong if it weren't.

  Rowan Williams

  Believe, Suffering, Would Be

  "Archbishop: 'It should shake our faith in God'" by Martin Bright, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2005.

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• With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.

  Bob Hayes

  Country, Jobs, Moving

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