Susie Orbach Quotes

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

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

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

I felt guilty about what happened on 'Twin Peaks.' All of a sudden, to have that kind of payoff for doing so little seemed very strange.

Life is crazy. It goes in directions that you could never guess.

Before it happened to me, I'd look at other people who had become really successful and think, 'What a dream. That must be absolutely everything they ever wanted.' When it does happen to you, you realize yes, it's incredible. But it also comes with a bit of a weird aftertaste.

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I'd cut my time with Clint in half. I wouldn't say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I'd found a way - I'd understood who he was, where it would end - five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.

I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.

I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

Once you learn the idea of what a good guy is, you want your dad to be a good guy, and when your dad lets you down and doesn't act like a good guy, it's disappointing and can make you angry as you see it happen, which is beautiful and very believable.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.