My mother had demonstrated
My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself – by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age. Gail Sheehy
Surprise
I think the beauty
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 … Read more
There are two kinds
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing… They are fluid. They keep … Read more
Just like the breakthroughs,
Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121) Gail Giles
The idea that if
The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise. Gail Collins
I needed to put
I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes – which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show – and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask … Read more
On 3 things in
On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list… Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter. Gabriel Macht
A chess problem is
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way trivial mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there is something essential lacking. Chess problems are unimportant. The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful-important if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and serious expresses what … Read more
Nothing will surprise us
Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us. Ezra Taft Benson
Sometimes I surprise myself
Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences. Ezra Koenig