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Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?
That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.
Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.
Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.
The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.
Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.
My career definitely took an unexpected change in direction when it came to 'Here Lies Love.'
Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over.
When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.
The song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.
I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.
Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.
Sometimes life takes you on unexpected paths, and those paths aren't always in the same direction.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.
There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.
When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.
Videogames have existed for almost 40 years now, yet every year, we see major and unexpected advances.
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.
In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.
I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.
An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.
For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.
I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.