Slate Quotes

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

  Tobey Maguire

  Want, Blank, I Can

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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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• I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.

  Michael Bierut

  Design Process, Trouble, Designer

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• [London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Dirty, Sight, Sea

  V.S. Pritchett (2009). “Mr. Beluncle: A Novel”, p.13, Modern Library

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• I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Fun, Humble

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Opportunity, Succeed, Sometimes

  "Happiness: Should You Have Goals Or Resolutions?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2008.

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• It was a lot of fun to play a character [in Swiss Army Man] with no inhibitions, and with no knowledge of the world, and who comes into the world kind of like a blank slate. It means there's no template or blueprint for how you need to play certain scenes.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fun, Character, Mean

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Cities, Addresses, Stones

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People, Auditors, Never Forget

  "Manual Of Justice". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, www.xenu.net. 1959.

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• It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

  John Warren Kindt

  Country, Gambling, Years

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• Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

  Erik Larson

  Book, Ideas, Blank

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• Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress.

  Vera Nazarian

  Passion, Long, Progress

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.

  Luke Evans

  Discipline, Stories, Actors

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We all have one thing in common: Happy New Year! It's a clean slate.

  Eric Thomas

  New Year, Years, Common

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• The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Sheep, Religion

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• When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on.  Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices.  You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be  Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality.  They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Attitude, People, Choices

  "Loners". www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2005.

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• The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that it is quiet. Its quietness makes it seem perfect. The ripples are like the slates of a blind of a shutter through which we see imperfectly what is perfect. Though that other world can be seen only momentarily, it looks everlasting. As the ripples become more agitated, the window darkens and the other world is hidden.the surface of the river is like a living soul, which is easy to disturb, is often disturbed, but, growing calm, shows what it was, is, and will be.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Other Worlds, Rivers

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• Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don’t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we’d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--it’s very interesting. It still holds up, and it’s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Powerful, Character

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• For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Long, Political

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• As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Principles, Lines, Matter

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• The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

  Vera Nazarian

  Desert, Layers, Pseudo

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today’s the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.

  Brendon Burchard

  Morning, Wake Up, Want

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• What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Tabula Rasa, Needs, Fresh Start

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.378, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mean, People, Wipe

  P.J. O'Rourke (2010). “DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards”, p.52, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing. I am finding new ways to allow myself to soar beyond the parameters of what the writers have written. My key is to commit, and love your character.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Love You, Character, Keys

  "Exclusive: Giancarlo Esposito Talks Current Projects, More; Directing Series On Slave Abolitionist John Brown". Interview by Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2012.

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