Slate Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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