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• Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Believe, Writing, Psychics

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• Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Father, Years, Pages

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• I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

  Prabal Gurung

  School, Thinking, Knowing

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• We always joke now like, you know, the more experienced we get making stuff, we're like, "Never leave set without a shot of each of our lead characters driving in the car looking happy, looking moderately blank and looking sad." Because we know we're going to need these things.

  Mark Duplass

  Character, Car, Stuff

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

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• Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind of change things every time, play on the floor, set up in the middle of the room. They go in and they reinvent the space every time, which I feel is like the kind of thing that should just be happening.

  Will Oldham

  Artist, Play, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.

  Alex Lemon

  Knives, Joy, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

  Jonathan Meades

  Construction Industry, Way, Likes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

  Jodi Picoult

  Block, Believe, Hands

  Source: www.zip06.com

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• For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

  Lincoln Child

  Hard Work, Writing, Pages

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• Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

  Brian Pinkerton

  Ink, Computer, Sheets

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymore, and that phase is always my favorite part and the part that I tend to want to stretch out and spend as much time in as possible.

  Charlie Clouser

  Paper, Phases, Want

  "Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.

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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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• 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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• I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.

  Judy Blume

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

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• You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

  Rob Brown

  Overwhelmed, Computer, Possibility

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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• Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

  Nicole Williams

  People, Interviews, Underestimate

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• You are criticizing me for my fashion statement. My wife keeps on criticizing me for my blank bank statement

  Arvind Kejriwal

  Fashion, Wife, Criticize

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• Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Skills, Choices

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

  Victoria Wood

  Writing, Scary, Pages

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• Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Book

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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