#surprise

If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment — and that’s a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place. What I feel fortunate about is that I’m still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#curiousity #learning #life #surprise #art

Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire.” “Oh, you found someone else? With less money? ↗

— Vivian Arend

#money #surprise #money

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#believes #bestowed #books #characters #free

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#agreeable #because #before #curiosity #everything

Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#am #beginning #capability #championship #i

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze. ↗

— Adele

#always #appearance #been #booze #care

Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you. ↗

— Mark Oliver Everett

#life #surprises #beauty

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. ↗

— Tristan Bernard

#expect #surprised #theatre #things #wants

The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance. ↗

— Genie Francis

#beautiful #dance #everything #eyes #going

I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.' ↗

— David Gallagher

#awesome #chameleon #eventually #go #gonna