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“I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the character traits that I've got to stick with and amplify and keep pushing forward and pushing on the public. I'm really happy to throw it all away and start each record with a blank slate but I concede you've got a point, there are things I can't get rid of, no matter how hard I try.”

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Author:Squarepusher

“Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when you're watching a film that you've worked on for several years. You know every frame so intimately that holding lots of the objectivity of a new viewer who has just seen it for the first time is the hardest thing. Every aesthetic decision you make - and you make thousands of them every day, have to - in theory, must be done from you being a blank slate. You almost have to run a program, like a mind wipe, every time you watch the movie.”

“I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.”

Knows Said Different School Opportunity Individual Saws College Unique My Friends Being Yourself Brown Blank Slate Blank Slates

Author:Masi Oka

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

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Author:Rob Brown

“One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space between the words. People just wrote in continuous script.”

People Writing Book Space Scripts Instance Fascinating Space Between Slate Papyrus

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“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.”

Want Persons Today Chance Morning Wake Up Clean Be You Slate Clean Slate

Author:Brendon Burchard

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

Mystery Illusion Ideals Surface Endless Desert Layers Blank Slate Pseudo Blank Slates

Author:Vera Nazarian

“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.”

Wells Long Moments Action Passion Term Progress Solutions Violent Long Term Shock Destructive Blank Constructive Slate Armageddon Blank Slates Postponement

Author:Vera Nazarian

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

Years Country Years Ago Clean Gambling Wipe Slate

Author:John Warren Kindt

“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.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“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.”

Knows Persons Stories Actors Discipline Clean Wipe Slate

Author:Luke Evans

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

Found Cities Built Stones Addresses Concrete Slate

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“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.”

Process Trouble Heard Design Capable Starting Invention Admire Designer Blank Slate Blank Slates Design Process

Author:Michael Bierut

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

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Author:Ben Kingsley

“I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.”

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Author:Christian Bale

“The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.”

Mind Facts Simple Doctrine Mathematical Appeals Zero Blank Slate Blank Slates

Author:Steven Pinker

“The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.”

“It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.”

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Author:Julia Roberts

“Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.”

Want Loses Clean Slate Clean Slate

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.”

Character Fiction Materials Tvs Independent Studios Driven Theatre Partners Developing Diverse Cables Non Fiction Amy Slate Producing Movies

Author:Meredith Vieira

“Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.”

House Color Shapes Window Notes Details Driving Fog Bricks Composing Slate Mortar Bricks And Mortar Brick Roads

Author:Benjamin Britten

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”

Matter Love Is Air Building True Love Contracts Equations Oxygen Happy Endings Slate Chalk My True Love

Author:Jodi Picoult

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

Needs Blank Slate Fresh Start Blank Slates Tabula Rasa

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“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.”

Want Sometimes Hands Beautiful Form Fun Tears Shapes Comfortable Draws Garden Burden Humble Ugly Admiration Awkward Shells Familiarity Tenacity Resent Gloves Adaptability Oysters Slate

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory.”

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.”

“I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”

School Broke Slate

Book:Anne of the Island

Source: Anne of the Island

“Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera”

“Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.”

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Book:The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

“Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?”

Two Might Eye Turns Courses Brain Happened Stones Distance Eggs Broken Heart Bad Things Buddy Swans Slate Hmm Scrambled Eggs

Book:Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.”

Want Play Character Justice Secret Roles Baby Training Critics Planning Blank Slate Replacements Blank Slates Understudies

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Patch's eyes were slate black, darker than a million secrets stacked on top of each other. He dropped his gaze to the ring in his hand, turning it over slowly. "Swear you'll never stop loving me," I whispered. Ever so slightly, he nodded.”

Hands Eye Black Secret Millions Rings Swear Patches Slate Loving Me Never Stop Loving

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's left. Nothing. There is no more Daelyn Rice. As I was. As I am. Or will become. I'm a blank slate”

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Author:Julie Anne Peters

“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.”

Enough Life Is Night Sleep Darkness Grace Clean Wipe Another Day Slate Grace And Forgiveness

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.”

Ifs School Lasts Loss Half Effects Tears Deeds Good Deeds Slate Sponges Misdeeds

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

“There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.”

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Book:The Deception of the Emerald Ring

Source: The Deception of the Emerald Ring

“Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”

School Broke Slate

Book:Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books

Source: Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books

“It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.”

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

“We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.”

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Book:Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

“I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.”

Knows Care Lost Waiting Loses Loss Gone Written Possibility Fine Pages Gains Clean Uncertainty Blank Absolutely Nothing Slate Nothing To Lose No Friends Blank Pages Clean Slate

Author:Gregory Galloway

“The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate.”

Book Self Moments Rooms Records Wall Periods Pure Dear Apartment Blank Spine Slate Blank Slates

Author:Claire Messud

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

Sometimes Opportunity Failing Succeed Clean Slate Clean Slate

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.”

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”

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Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.”

Source: Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man

“Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.”

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Author:George MacDonald

“Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending.”

Needs Writing Children Parent Simple Leader Cases Teacher Goes On Becoming Opposites Clean Simplicity Track Ease Priests Slate Unending Clean Slate

Author:Rajneesh

“You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve people's needs in a more efficient, integrated way.”

People Way Needs Real Country Opportunity Challenges Inspire Products Clean Developing Appropriate Efficient Consumption Provoking Integrated Slate Developing Countries Clean Slate

Author:Paul Meyer

“My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.”

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