Korean audiences are amazing. The fans scream so loud, and that really surprises skaters when they first perform in my shows.
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.
The truth is - and this is corny - I fall more in love with Portia all the time. I really do. She surprises me all the time.
My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.
I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.
I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.
Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.
When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
'Sol Invictus' works like your basic FNM record: the sequencing is an artful job, hustling you politely through all the gentle, harsh, weird surprises that follow - and then when it's over, you get back on the ride and start over, just like Space Mountain.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.
My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.
That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
Life is full of challenges and surprises.
Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.
I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.
I would really like to take on something that really surprises people and shows that I want to be taken seriously as an actress. Also, creatively speaking, that sounds really fun.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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.
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.
Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.
I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.
I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.
