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  • For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

    "A Minute With: Arjun Rampal on 'Satyagraha'". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, in.reuters.com. August 21, 2013.
  • I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

    Stories   Elements   Way  
  • Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

    Art   Jobs   Laughter  
    "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.
  • I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.

    Dorothy Cottrell (1929). “The Singing Gold”
  • I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic.

    "Elton John, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt Interview, Gnomeo & Juliet". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.
  • That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

  • Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

    Mma   Elements   Way  
  • Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.

    War   Wings   Elements  
  • I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

    Taken   Thinking   Play  
    "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.
  • When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

  • Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.

    Prayer   Fun   Party  
    Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.84, Zondervan
  • That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

    Writing   Judging   Looks  
    V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.188, Pan Macmillan
  • You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.

    The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.
  • every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

    Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media
  • the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

  • There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

    Love   Godly   Men  
  • Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.

  • The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

    Humor   Essence   Mind  
    Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

    Elements   Tvs   Surprise  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

  • A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

  • Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

  • This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance in a plot. It occurs through a suspension of the time-sequence; a mystery is a pocket in time, and it occurs crudely, as in "Why did the queen die?" and more subtly in half-explained gestures and words, the true meaning of which only dawns pages ahead. Mystery is essential to a plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence.

    "Aspects Of the Novel".
  • Can there be allowed - are we allowed to have any more in the military, General, the element of surprise? You know, I would think it would be a good thing. It's called an ancient strength and we don't use it anymore.

    Military   Thinking   Use  
    Source: time.com
  • I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, but it's very different from a script. A script you write, you shoot against, and you know what the story is going to be. There's always the element of surprise, but the surprise comes from performance, from something that's improvised, it comes from someone who sees it inside an already determined framework. In documentary, it's never determined. It's never the same, and affords enormous possibility.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.

    Girl   Hero   Heart  
    "Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ Welcome to the Hellmouth". DVD Commentary, 1997.
  • The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

  • It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things.

  • Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

  • I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

    "Aishwarya Rai's post-baby body forces India to confront its attitude to women" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.
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