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If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed’s work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.
Who can’t relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
I never look at twists as a way to trick the audience. Obviously, I think a good story has surprises and unexpected turns, and you always want to do that with an audience. But it has nothing to do with conning them or making them believe so strongly in one thing and then kind of going the other way.
Guests love to be ‘wowed’ in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.
My feeling is there’s a lot of straight drama on television. My goal in life is to try to create something unexpected, and genre is the tool in doing that.
We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.
I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair’s foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.
We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.
The decision to use recognition as an on-the-spot bonus instead of merely pay increases is a fascinating one, because pay increases can create new mental anchors for how much the person feels happy earning, whereas the social recognition program is ongoing, unexpected, and harder to form a mental anchor around.
So much of our audience is on mobile and online platforms, but there’s something special, unique, and unexpected about engaging with such great content at the street level.
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don’t know yet. She’s writing it all herself.
It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. ‘Oh my God, I’m in the movies!’ It still hasn’t sunk in.
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist’s thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
On Warped Tour in Boise, Idaho, I broke my tooth on the mic. I took a pretty significant chunk out of my tooth and had to have it sanded down. It wasn’t the most painful injury, but it was the most unexpected one.
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.
At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns – not a cold and bullying prison – it’s a place of infinite jest.
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back.
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
If you go through life, and you don’t find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
Well I’m still working on The Incredibles. So I’m going to take a little time off. I’ve got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I’m not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds – the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.
You know, losing my husband in 2008, that was a completely unexpected thing. And that process of grief and mourning that has taught me a lot about life, and how we never know how long we have.
When you’re in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.
In the private sector we budget for rainy days or offset unexpected expenditures with spending cuts and the same principles should apply to Congress.
Many families teeter on the edges, not qualifying for the little support on offer, unwilling to seek it for fear of drawing attention to a household barely holding the pieces together, or hit by unexpected bills.
An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.
People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you’re in a movie with unexpected bursts of energy. It’s really kind of psychedelic in a way.
Life will take you in all kinds of unexpected directions and it certainly did with me.
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army’s point of view.
Charm is a product of the unexpected.
I saw Kim Nam Ju and Yu Jun Sang sing ‘Trouble Maker’ on ‘Unexpected You,’ and my mother really liked it. That’s why it’s the most memorable.
The Mahavishnu Orchestra – when it came out, it was an explosion, completely unexpected as far as I was concerned. I was just forming a band.
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don’t be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.
I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it’s a really big swing that I don’t know if I’m going to connect on.
Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected – whether it’s movies or people or relationships. I’m always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.
Basically i’ve done a few podcasts one is ‘Prepare for the Unexpected’ which is a guide to my life and how I deal with things and I’ve also done a ‘Guide to Surving the Summer Festivals’ too.
My career definitely took an unexpected change in direction when it came to ‘Here Lies Love.’
I have never even considered a future outside the walls of the WWE. However, sometimes life takes an unexpected turn, and while it is the most difficult decision I have ever made, it is time for me to move on.
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn’t feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that’s a good thing to learn.
The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.
