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Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
Laura Dern
Me
Challenges
People
Challenge
Become
Think
Else
Out
Boring
Taking
Like
Surprise
Any
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Them
Really
Acting
Figured
Chore
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Day
Every Day
Path
Become
Every
Laura
Slowly
Mary
Had
Road
Almost
Almost Every Day
House
Wagon
Surprise
Stopped
Little
Stared
Playing
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.
Lawrence R. Klein
Great
Enthusiasm
Society
Entered
Find
Area
Journal
Study
Came
Surprise
Were
Professional
Flourishing
The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.
Lee Grant
Life
Best
You
Dangerous
Whatever
Living
Out
Stay
Scene
Throws
Know
Because
Genuine
Surprise
Very
Survive
Going
Just
Where
Happen
Happens
Place
To Survive
Really
Next
Actor
It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.
Lennart Nilsson
Nature
People
Extremely
About
Something
New
Well
Well Known
Known
Surprise
Human
Human Body
Reproduction
Mean
Them
Body
Technique
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
Leslie Charteris
Myself
Cause
Everything
Point
Lazy
Writes
He
Economical
Surprise
Anyone
Should
Instead of fearing the unknown - all the bad that can happen - realize that good things can surprise you as well.
Lewis Howes
Good
You
Good Things
Unknown
Bad
Fearing
Instead
Well
Surprise
Happen
Realize
Things
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
Lionel Blue
Birthday
Enemies
Wish
Teens
Surprise
Than
Nicer
Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.
Liz Tuccillo
Work
Time
You
People
Group
Enrich
Television
Characters
Follow
Over
Well
Because
Surprise
Very
Get
Stories
Which
Fantastic
Satisfying
Right
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.
Lois Lowry
Myself
Destination
Writing
Sometimes
Mind
Sense
Something
General
Only
Point
General Sense
Along
Know
Most
Make
Make Up
How
Doing
Go
Surprise
Up
Going
Where
Not Interested
Story
Interested
Prefer
Start
When I came out, it wasn't a big formal conversation like in the movies. I just started living as my true and authentic self and opened up my life to my parents - sharing who I was, and bringing a girlfriend when I came home for a visit. To my great surprise, my parents accepted me for who I was and have supported me since.
Lori Lightfoot
Life
Home
Great
Me
Conversation
My Life
Parents
Big
Living
Visit
Out
Girlfriend
Self
Sharing
True
Supported
Opened
Since
Like
Accepted
Came
Surprise
Up
Authentic
Authentic Self
Just
Formal
Movies
Who
Bringing
Started
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
Lorrie Moore
Humor
Release
Some
Tension
Surprise
Buried
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.
Lucas Papademos
Other
Relatively
Way
One-Way
Soon
Surprise
Greek
Expect
Happens
Actually
Default
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.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
People
Political
Example
Recipe
Would
Would-Be
Outside
For Example
Political Career
Surprise
Subtle
Interested
Interests
Show
Career
My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.
Luke Harding
War
Fashion
Fate
First
Reflect
Cold
Cold War
Dramatic
Possibility
Correspondent
Russia
Something
Since
Stunned
Accepted
Always
Am
Real
Surprise
Years
Textbook
Western
End
Staff
Then
Far-Fetched
Suffer
Four
I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.
Lusia Strus
You
Balance
Control
Down
Other
Out
Must
See
Directly
Take
Emotionally
Maintain
Like
Spontaneity
How
How Far
Go
Surprise
Up
Craft
Script
Personally
Far
Then
Actor
Level
However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own.
Lynn Coady
People
Matter
Long
Own
Awareness
Other
Others
Everyday
Everyday Lives
Way
Definitely
Out
Collision
Abrupt
Weirdness
Always
How
However
Surprise
Very
Often
Being
Different
Happened
Your
Lives
Presence
Brings
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.
Lzzy Hale
Me
Girl
Band
Tool
Way
Would
Tour
No-One
Part
Because
Audience
Rock
Surprise
Began
Up
Expected
Get
Little
Little Girl
Used
Start
Set
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
M. Ward
Best
Live
Recordings
Onstage
Surprise
Capture
Elements
In life, all things have come to me as a surprise and I didn't have any plans to do films. So let's see how it goes.
Manushi Chhillar
Life
Me
Films
All Things
See
Come
How
Surprise
Goes
Any
Plans
Things
One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.
Marc Jacobs
Fashion
People
One Thing
See
About
Exciting
Know
Surprise
Just
Want
Element
Thing
I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
Margaret Halsey
Food
Me
Sometimes
Long
Enough
About
Well
How
Surprise
Up
Wonder
Get
Did
Manage
Warned
English
Plate
Ever
When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.
Maria Semple
Good
Me
You
Reality
Book
Laughter
Good Laugh
Books
Laugh
Delightful
Roar
Reach
Another
Makes
Always
Surprise
Submerge
Expect
Move
Novel
Deeply
Need
When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.
Mark McKinnon
You
Money
Unions
Spent
Adjusted
Look
Exempt
Democrats
Disclosure
Surprise
Labor
Crafted
Bill
'The Daily Mail' interviewed my friends in Jamaica to find out if I was ever the victim of a vicious homophobic attack because, to them, I'm a gay refugee. But nothing like that happened. So, no surprise, that story didn't appear. I'm really pretty boring.
Marlon James
Daily
Gay
Victim
Nothing
Out
Find
Boring
Pretty
Attack
Mail
Like
Because
Surprise
Friends
Refugee
Jamaica
Happened
Vicious
Story
Them
Really
Appear
Ever
Homophobic
I like life to surprise me.
Martin Freeman
Life
Me
Like
Surprise
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