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I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. -- Charles de Gaulle
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. -- V. S. Naipaul
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage. -- M. Ward
Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise. -- David Spade
It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things. -- Daniel Lanois
If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game. -- Jay Maisel
That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise. -- Sylvester Stallone
Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise. -- Jim Cornette
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . -- Sun Bin
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it. -- H. G. Wells
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot. -- E. M. Forster
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
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. -- Eddie Izzard
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. -- Mark Batterson
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. -- Peter Ustinov
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. -- Agnes Repplier
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. -- Emily Blunt
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
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
I love the surprise element of being a mom. -- Jessica Capshaw
There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time. -- Jenna-Louise Coleman
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. -- Arjun Rampal
Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing. -- Stephen Dobyns
I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing. -- Sam Claflin
On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more. -- Sylvester Stallone
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. -- Khaled Hosseini
Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music. -- T.I.
The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting. -- Mark McKinnon
So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If you can just create an element of surprise in both the storytelling and tone of a show, you're going to be way ahead of the pack. -- David Nevins
The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary. -- Georges St-Pierre
Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done. -- Zach Galifianakis
There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time. -- Jenna-Louise Coleman
One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it. -- Marc Jacobs
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. -- Daniel Handler
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. -- Mark Taimanov
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A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable. -- Walter Pater

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