Blank Quotes - Page 2

• Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Pieces

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• You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Struggle, Writing, Typewriters

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• Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

  John Updike

  Morning, Character, Fog

  John Updike (2012). “Collected Poems, 1953-1993”, p.186, Knopf

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• I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.

  Lesley Gore

  Song, Morning, Writing

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• If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Stars, Book, Dark

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• A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

  Virginia Foxx

  Cells, Skins, Body

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• Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

  Gene Fowler

  Inspirational, Writing, Blood

  Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.

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• An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

  Arthur Lowe

  Art, Character, Play

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

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• In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

  Cindy Crawford

  Trying, Staring, Studios

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• I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

  Tobey Maguire

  Want, Slate, I Can

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• A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Wall, Loneliness, Support

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• I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Book, Checks, Sticker

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• I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.

  Lee Child

  Writing, Office, Six Months

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• My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

  Al Jarreau

  Rain, Eye, Blue

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• I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Feb 29, 2012

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• What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Eye, Looks, Actors

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• When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Literature

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• Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

  Alvin Martin

  Names, Would Be, Paper

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• Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

  Jacques Lacan

  Writing, Wind, Flying

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• I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

  Ben Kingsley

  Creativity, Creative, Trying

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• If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Moon, Ideas, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1908). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• Blank paper has always inspired me.

  Daniel Handler

  Paper, Inspired, Blank Paper

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• It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Latin, Book

  "Evaristo Carriego" by Jorge Luis Borges, (Ch. 3), 1930.

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• Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, People, History Books

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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