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I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish
I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.
Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you're outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much.
Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel
New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
In the Premier League, you never know who is going to win or who will be champions. It is always a surprise.
I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.
I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.
Being 40 and pregnant with my third child, it's no surprise that the cellulite on my legs got out of control.
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.
The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."
I was clearly the singing and dancing actor. When I was picked for serious roles, it came to me as a surprise.
My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.
With every project, there are things that surprise you with the meaning they take on as you start to use them.
I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.
But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.
I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.
I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.
true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
What was so lovely about 'O.J.' and 'This Is Us' to a certain extent is that I got a chance to surprise people.
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.
I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.