#surprised

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#happen #i #surprised #things #work

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me. ↗

— Enya

#i #me #music #never #personal

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#actually #continuously #goes #language #mysterious

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#come #first #had #i #know

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#agent #another #another woman #editor #fact

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#children #hear #i #people #read

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#amazing #being #different #different ways #fail

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#beauty #best #does #donna #due

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did. ↗

— Terri Windling

#desert #did #extent #girl #had

Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#campaign #church #closely #critics #decidedly