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• I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

  Sophia Myles

  Grandmother, Half, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

  Kim Stanley

  Inappropriate, Given, Slate

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• I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

  Victor Serge

  Might, Argument, Logical

  Victor Serge (2011). “The Case of Comrade Tulayev”, p.19, New York Review of Books

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• White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

  Stephen Sondheim

  White, Pages, Canvas

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• A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

  Nicky Wire

  Paper, Pages, Possibility

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• ...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer wrote a letter to the JAMA, threatening a suit for libel...The editorial was withdrawn...(leaving) columns which were blank.

  Charlotte Gerson

  Dark, Leaving, Age

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• He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
  have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
  target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
  end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
  lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
  freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Humorous, Men

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.122

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• BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Writing, Difficult

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.

  Winston Churchill

  Wall, Light, House

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant.

  Amos Oz

  Wall, Doors, Mouths

  Amos Oz (1999). “The Story Begins: Essays on Literature”, Harcourt

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• I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page.

  Charles Busch

  Writing, Work Out, Scary

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• Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

  Jack Kerouac

  Talking, Joy, Soul

  "On the Road". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 5, 1957.

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• The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Zero, Caring, Land

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• And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

  Lesley Gore

  Morning, Piano, The End Of The Day

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• History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Pages, Soil, Periods

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1953). “Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History”

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• Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

  Heather McHugh

  Train Of Thought, Track, Trying

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• Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

  Blaine Hogan

  Looks, Pages, Blank Pages

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• I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

  Luis Bunuel

  Wall, Eye, Dark

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• The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

  Alison Gopnik

  Brain, Stones, Flexible

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• I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Writing, Hands

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• They could take sesame seeds off the market and I wouldn't even care. I can't imagine 5 years from now saying, "Remember sesame seeds? What happened? All the buns are blank!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Years

  "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". December 9, 2003.

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• Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.

  John C. Parkin

  Beautiful, Drawing, Pages

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• ..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

  Henry Ford

  Past, Today, Chaos

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• People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

  Terry Wogan

  Successful, Winning, Awards

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• The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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