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Evil has always been there; it's always a part of us. Evil is no big surprise. But what about the people who gave freely, who stood up for human dignity? Even in the most extreme and terrible situations, these acts of dignity existed. And for me, that is the banality of good.
Rithy Panh
Good
Me
Dignity
People
Evil
Big
Gave
Extreme
About
Part
Freely
Most
Terrible
Always
Surprise
Been
Existed
Up
Banality
Stood
Situations
Human
Big Surprise
Human Dignity
Us
Who
Even
Acts
It is up to me to adapt and to continue to surprise with my positioning, the timing of my runs, the trajectories, when I call for the ball.
Riyad Mahrez
Me
Timing
Positioning
Runs
Call
Ball
Surprise
Continue
Up
Adapt
Sweet, loveable, and with every click revealing a new surprise, 'Botanicula' creates both a wonderful world where bees and twigs play in the universe and sets up a daring story of a group of unlikely heroes taking on a tree's last hope of survival.
Rob Manuel
Hope
Survival
Wonderful
World
Heroes
Sweet
Group
Every
Universe
Sets
Tree
Unlikely
Daring
Both
Taking
New
Click
Revealing
Surprise
Bees
Up
Where
Story
Creates
Play
Twig
Last
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
Rob Sheffield
Life
Me
Memory
Song
My Life
Every
Alive
Some
Never
Know
Soundtrack
Surprise
Jump
Going
Moment
Bring
It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Robert Ballard
Black
Bottom
Surprise
Huge
Sea
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
Robert Cailliau
Me
Google
Despite
Still
Surprise
Sites
Biggest
Biggest Surprise
Explosion
Functions
Number
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it.
Robert Englund
Me
Science
Grateful
Big
Punch
Out
TV
TV Series
Freddy
Sort
Because
Science Fiction
Got
Am
Surprise
Celebrity
Big Surprise
Fiction
Double
Then
International
Series
Street
Actually
Phenomenon
Nightmare
I think I surprise myself.
Robert Plant
Myself
Think
Surprise
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
Robert South
Experience
Surprise
Wonder
Stops
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
Roger Mudd
Ethics
Country
Past
Press
Must
Given
Through
Put
Come
Most
Surprise
Past Decade
Decade
American
Media
Code
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.
Roger Rosenblatt
Great
Example
Understanding
Our
Writers
Instead
Merely
For Example
Instrument
Unusual
Because
Surprise
Anticipation
Whereas
Happening
Use
Why
Consequence
I didn't spend my childhood trying to be a performer; it was a big surprise to me that this was what I was doing. But it has always felt quite natural to me. I wasn't taught to do what I do; I found out bit by bit.
Roisin Murphy
Me
Natural
Big
Spend
Bit
Out
Performer
Felt
Always
Doing
Surprise
Trying
Quite
Childhood
Taught
Big Surprise
Found
I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
Ron Ben-Israel
Birthday
Cake
Britney
Britney Spears
Elton
Elton John
Frank
Circus
Out
John
Architect
Had
Put
She
Buildings
Surprise
His
Did
Themes
Spears
Prepared
Event
Album
With 'Outlander,' definitely the book fans were at the door, ready to go, as soon as we started. But it felt like it kind of crossed over into more of a general audience rapidly. That did surprise me - I thought it would take longer for general audiences to come around.
Ronald D. Moore
Me
Book
Fans
Thought
Definitely
Kind
Rapidly
Would
Outlander
Crossed
General
More
Take
Soon
Longer
Over
Come
Like
Around
Felt
Audience
Ready
Audiences
Go
Surprise
Were
Did
Door
Started
My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.
Roz Savage
You
Yourself
Advice
Out
Something
Surprise
Get
Just
Asking
Really
Keep
When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.
Ruben Studdard
Me
People
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Exactly
Exactly The Same
See
Something
Come
Does
Idol
Surprise
Lot
Versions
Person
American
Same
Different
Wants
American Idol
Them
Works
Twists
My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.
Rumer Willis
Education
Me
Wait
Parents
First
Big
Way
Out
Only
Could
Had
Knew
Come
Until
Always
Surprise
Get
Big Surprise
The Only Thing
Wanted
Really
Act
Thing
No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.
Russell Smith
Music
Art
Conservative
Most
Surprise
Art Form
Form
Far
Pop
Pop Music
Here
If you catch me lying, it's probably because I'm about to surprise someone for their birthday, or hide away the specific details about a company getaway to a strange but amazing place.
Ryan Holmes
Birthday
Me
You
Strange
Hide
Amazing
Lying
Details
About
Someone
Catch
Because
Surprise
Place
Company
Away
Specific
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
Sadie Jones
Time
Waiting
Feelings
Think
Our
Immediate
Those
About
Perhaps
Read
How
Surprise
Selves
Than
Closer
Often
Childhood
Just
Moving
Us
Much
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.
Safak Pavey
Government
Nature
Human Nature
Punish
Those
Adherence
Participating
Protests
Real
Surprise
Were
Shock
Authority
Human
After
Decided
Them
Act
Disobedience
Moment
Initial
Believed
Have transfer prices in England surprised me? No. Are the prices over-inflated? Yes. But there is no surprise now.
Sam Allardyce
Me
Prices
Surprise
Surprised
Yes
Transfer
England
Now
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Sam Mendes
You
Competition
Think
Way
Constantly
Given
Surprise
Reported
Which
Movies
Might
I love a psychological thriller, particularly ones that are written by women. I've just finished 'Gone Girl' by Gillian Flynn, which was so creepy and never failed to surprise me, particularly the end.
Sarah Alexander
Love
Me
Women
Girl
Finished
Gone
Thriller
Never
Written
Failed
Particularly
Surprise
End
Just
Psychological
Which
Creepy
You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.
Sarah Hall
Work
Hope
You
Somebody
Something
Perfect
Could
Write
Reader
Always
Surprise
Human
Anyone
Appealing
In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.
Sarah MacLean
Love
Future
Women
Heroes
Power
Action
Heroines
Books
Finding
Through
Come
Surprise
Themselves
Should
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