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With 'Imposters,' I finally felt I had gotten something I could sink my teeth into. It's a dream come true, and I couldn't ask for a more fulfilling and challenging experience. It was something I didn't expect. A real surprise.
Inbar Lavi
Experience
Teeth
Finally
Dream
Something
More
Could
Had
True
Come
Felt
Real
Gotten
Surprise
Sink
Expect
Ask
Fulfilling
Challenging
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.
Iyanla Vanzant
Cancer
Rare
Daughter
Colon
Diagnosed
Surprise
Shock
Form
Us
Unless I'm a little bit scared about something, I'm genuinely not actually entirely happy. I feel I need to be just that little bit outside my comfort zone, and then I can really surprise myself and stretch myself, and I think that's a really good thing for any actor.
Jack Reynor
Myself
Good
Happy
Think
Unless
Bit
Scared
About
Entirely
Something
Good Thing
Outside
Feel
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Genuinely
Surprise
Any
Just
Little
Little Bit
Then
Really
Actor
Actually
Thing
Zone
Need
Stretch
The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.
Jake Epstein
Love
Myself
Day
You
One Day
Possible
Dream
Kinds
No Idea
More
Take
Written
Idea
Longer
Also
Said
Doing
Hamlet
Surprise
Been
Roles
Being
Realized
Play
Need
I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Me
Sometimes
School
Thought
Parents
Sets
High
Would
High School
Something
Also
Audition
Surprise
Up
Familiar
Get
Just
Movie
Grew
Them
Then
Growing
Growing Up
Found
Things
Oh, the first dish I learned to make, I think I was about 10 years old, I made my dad spaghetti and broccoli for dinner when he got home from work, and it was, like, a surprise.
Jaleel White
Work
Home
Old
Made
Dinner
First
Think
Broccoli
About
He
Like
Make
Learned
Got
Surprise
Years
Oh
Dish
Spaghetti
Dad
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.
James Burrows
Love
You
Tell
About
Directing
Never
Weighs
Know
Piece
Until
Audience
Surprise
Going
Happen
Your
Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
James Burrows
Sometimes
Humor
Will
Joke
Stumble
Before
Back
Laugh
Bad
Know
Because
Audience
Coming
Surprise
Hears
Version
Up
Them
Hard
Actor
Right
There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
James Fallows
Environmental
Problems
Environmental Problems
Longer
Surprise
Any
China
Noting
Grave
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
James Huneker
You
Surprise
Child
Artist
Scratch
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.
Jane Green
Love
People
Same Thing
Gathering
Characters
Kitchen
Feeding
Most
Surprise
Same
Them
Show
Thing
An important part of any good mystery story like 'Original Sin' is that it's not just a game of 'Clue' with surprise after surprise after surprise, but the goal is to tell a story in the midst of that. Even once you know the solution to the mysteries, it's far from the whole story.
Jason Aaron
Good
You
Game
Mysteries
Important
Once
Tell
Solution
Mystery
Part
Sin
Like
Know
Important Part
Surprise
Goal
Any
Just
After
Story
Clue
Midst
Far
Original
Whole
Even
Original Sin
The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
Jay Roach
Success
Better
Unless
Bit
Something
Could
Had
Powers
Audience
Caught
Surprise
Austin
Austin Powers
Wanted
Decided
Little
Little Bit
Us
Even
Second
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.
Jay Samit
Life
Needs
Starts
Out
Visitor
Corridor
Through
Computer
New
Town
Most
Forced
Empty
Cube
Arrival
Arrive
Hire
Surprise
Office
Psychological
Plan
Bare
Searching
Satisfying
Basic
Necessities
Belonging
It's not exactly a big surprise that women mature earlier than men do. As a result, they tend to display better judgment, particularly when it comes to money.
Jean Chatzky
Women
Money
Better
Result
Men
Big
Judgment
Exactly
Tend
Particularly
Surprise
Mature
Than
Big Surprise
Display
Earlier
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.
Jeffrey Donovan
Me
People
Would
About
Thumb
Like
Cultivate
Surprise
Lot
Green
Get
Bushes
Really
Gardener
In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
Jehane Noujaim
You
Conflict
People
Challenge
Looking
Films
Constantly
Making
Surprise
Going
Who
When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.
Jenny Lewis
Me
People
Will
Think
Other
Record
Someone
More
Like
Surprise
Than
Then
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.
Jeremy Irons
Myself
Worth
Opportunities
Try
Face
Fall
Ways
Worth It
Find
Constantly
Risk
Surprise
Going
Maybe
Then
Actor
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.
Jim Starlin
Hide
Saw
More
Only
He
Always
How
Surprise
His
Up
Screen
Being
Exposed
Violet
On Monday and Thursday, I eat fewer than 500 calories a day; then I eat like a pig for the other five days. You 'surprise' the body: keep it guessing. I got the idea from a BBC documentary about this Indian man who seemed about 138 years old and said his secret was severe calorie restriction.
Jimmy Kimmel
Day
You
Man
Old
Monday
Other
Secret
Guessing
Severe
Indian
Eat
About
Seemed
Restriction
Idea
Thursday
Days
Like
Documentary
Pig
Said
Calorie
Got
Calories
Surprise
His
Years
Five
Than
Fewer
Then
Body
Who
Keep
You know who I'd like to open for? This will be a surprise, but I'll tell you who: Iron Maiden.
Joe Bonamassa
You
Will
Tell
Maiden
Open
Like
Know
Surprise
Iron
Iron Maiden
Who
The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.
Joel A. Barker
Me
People
World
Made
Invention
Big
Pay
Local
Local Economies
Reliably
Would
Wealthy
More
Thriving
Could
Countries
Economies
Surprise
Surprisingly
Off
Debts
Than
Big Surprise
Poor
Poor People
Create
Less
Who
Even
Loans
The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.
John Brunner
Quality
Universe
Only
Marvellous
Take
Real
Surprise
Inasmuch
Us
Unique
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.'
John Hillcoat
Will
Visual
Real
Came
Surprise
Blood
Affinity
Did
Being
Bold
Radiohead
Imagery
I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.
John Schlesinger
Made
First
Other
Booing
Berlin
Outbreak
Some
Never
Never Forget
Soon
Look
Surprise
Festival
Forget
Ended
Screening
Which
Us
Each
Film
Film Festival
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