I was sacked at Watford for a change of business plan. Anything can happen in this game. I can’t say I am never surprised because there are some surprises and there are still some crazy things that happen.
I love surprises – champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want – a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.
Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that.
That’s how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.
You can’t mess around with young readers – you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear.
Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care.
The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
I was sacked at Watford for a change of business plan. Anything can happen in this game. I can’t say I am never surprised because there are some surprises and there are still some crazy things that happen.
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
In my childhood dreams, I pictured Italy as paradise. I longed to be the next Sophia Loren, living in a village with winding cobbled streets where washing hung from windows and everybody gesticulated and shouted amicably. Ah, but life surprises.
When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.
The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, meals, and surprises for my birthday. It was like one continuous gift.
Who knows? Maybe years from now I’ll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it’s better when there are a few surprises thrown in.
What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I’m just a normal person.
Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was falling apart.
There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it’s going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.
What I teach our people is that, as a leader, you have four key roles apart from people management. First is to champion the grand vision. Two, install systems and a culture to run experiments. The third thing is to savour surprises. The fourth thing is that even a leader’s ideas need to be subjected to tests.
It always surprises me and always makes me proud when I see people that I know I worked with at the house in the basement on TV being superstars.
It’s most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.
What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.
I’ve only ever had surprises. My whole career’s a surprise!
My love can’t be purchased… Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.
I don’t know why it surprises people that I surprise them.
I don’t like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I’d like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.
Nothing ever surprises me about the market.
I’m very good at delegating – people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don’t like surprises. I don’t pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what’s going on.
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don’t like surprises. I don’t even like good surprises.
Content that surprises the audience will attract them.
There are going to be some real surprises in ‘Fable 2.’
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
I’ve found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.
