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Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

Quotes by Minnie Driver

My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy.

Quotes by Mildred Dresselhaus

It should surprise no one that I'm out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more.

Quotes by Mike Pompeo

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Quotes by Miguel Syjuco

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

Quotes by Michael Kors

It's a big surprise for me because if somebody asked me when I was playing if Frank Lampard would be a manager, I would say no because he's very quiet.

Quotes by Michael Essien

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

Quotes by Michael Arndt

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

Quotes by Meles Zenawi

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

Quotes by Max Lerner

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Quotes by Mary Ritter Beard

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

Quotes by Martin Seligman

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Quotes by Martin Freeman

Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.

Quotes by Marsha Blackburn

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

Quotes by Mark McKinnon

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

Quotes by Mark Gatiss

When, in 2015, Greece decided by referendum to reject Brussels' austerity plans, the European Union's antidemocratic response took no one by surprise: To deny the people's will had become a habit.

Quotes by Marine Le Pen

Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it's a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no surprise that they can sometimes get stuck along the way. The instruction on circumstantial evidence is confusing even to lawyers. And reasonable doubt? That's the hardest, most elusive one of all.

Quotes by Marcia Clark

The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.

Quotes by Maelle Gavet

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

Quotes by M. Ward

When we began to tour, no one expected me to be a part of the band, so I used that as a tool, and would start the set off-stage or in the audience, as a surprise, because no one expected this little girl to get up and rock the way I do.

Quotes by Lzzy Hale

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

Quotes by Lucille Roybal-Allard

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

Quotes by Lucas Papademos

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Quotes by Lorrie Moore

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.

Quotes by Lois Lowry

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Quotes by Lewis Thomas

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Quotes by Leslie Charteris

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Quotes by Lee Trevino

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

Quotes by Lee Child

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

Quotes by Lee Child

When I was working on the al-Zawahiri piece, a large part of it published in 'The New Yorker' in 2002, I had spoken to a lot of Zawahiri's friends, people who had been in prison with him, people that had been in al-Jihad with him. And quite to my surprise, they liked that article a lot.

Quotes by Lawrence Wright

I miss the classroom and the bit I miss the most is the one-on-one personal interactions with the students, those moments when they surprise you with their insightfulness, or their cheekiness.

Quotes by Layla Moran

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

Quotes by Lawrence R. Klein

The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.

Quotes by Kyle MacLachlan

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

Quotes by Krzysztof Kieslowski

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

'Guardians Of The Galaxy' was, as 'Ant-Man' was, just fun, in terms of expanding this universe. We always say, how can we keep audiences surprise at what an MCU film can be?

Quotes by Kevin Feige

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Quotes by Kenny G

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

Quotes by Kenneth Fisher

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

Quotes by Kellin Quinn

It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal in ways that might surprise them and others, right?

Quotes by Justin Simien

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

Quotes by Julie Kagawa

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

Quotes by Julie Burchill

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

Quotes by Julian Fellowes

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Quotes by Julia Cameron

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.

Quotes by Josh Stewart

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Quotes by Joseph Kosinski

I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen.

Quotes by Jordana Spiro

The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

Quotes by Johnny Manziel

Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.

Quotes by John Yoo

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

Quotes by John Redwood

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

Quotes by John Paul Jones

Radiohead showed a real affinity to being bold with visual imagery, so it came as no surprise when Jonny Greenwood did 'There Will Be Blood.'

Quotes by John Hillcoat

To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.

Quotes by John Garfield

I'm not a big planner. Things always sort of surprise me.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy Jr.

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

Quotes by John Barry

We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

Quotes by Joe Gebbia

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Quotes by Joe Dante

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.

Quotes by Joan Ganz Cooney

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Quotes by Jimmy Buffett

My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide as being more grayish violet.

Quotes by Jim Starlin

I love the surprise element of being a mom.

Quotes by Jessica Capshaw

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

Quotes by Jeremy Irons

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

Quotes by Jenna-Louise Coleman

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Quotes by Jeffrey Donovan

Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow's psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn't arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn't a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival.

Quotes by Jay Samit

'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.

Quotes by Jane Smiley

I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.

Quotes by Jane Green

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Quotes by James Huneker

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Quotes by James Fallows

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

Quotes by James Denton

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.

Quotes by James Denton

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.

Quotes by James Blunt

I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.

Quotes by James Burrows

Pro wrestling fans love surprises, so let's surprise them, and not just give them the old stuff.

Quotes by Jake Hager

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

Quotes by Irina Shayk

It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.

Quotes by Imogen Heap

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Quotes by Henry James

I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I think, is the job of an actor.

Quotes by Harshvardhan Rane

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

Quotes by Harvey Cushing

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.

Quotes by Harris Faulkner

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

Quotes by Hannibal Buress

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

Quotes by Hamsalekha

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

Quotes by Hallie Ephron

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

Quotes by Gus Van Sant

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

Quotes by Gloria Stuart

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

Quotes by Gijs de Vries

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Quotes by George S. Patton

It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit and outright roadblock books in prisons.

Quotes by George Pelecanos

Ekk Deewana Tha' will have a surprise ending to watch out for.

Quotes by Gautham Menon

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Quotes by Garrison Keillor

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

Quotes by Gallagher

I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

Quotes by Gallagher

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

Quotes by Gail Collins

I think as an actor you've got to try to preserve some of your mystery so that there's still an element of surprise about where characters come from.

Quotes by Freddie Fox

One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.

Quotes by Frank Welker

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

Quotes by Frank Leslie

Art must take reality by surprise.

Quotes by Francoise Sagan

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