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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
Laura Donnelly
Life
Me
Business
Mind
Rest
My Life
Young
Stage
Once
No Idea
Give
Give Me
Only
Blank
Glad
Had
Idea
New
Fellow
Very
Walked
Fright
Stage Fright
Rescue
Actor
Why
Utterly
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
First
Once
Months
About
Blank
Write
Takes
Until
End
Office
Get
Going
Six
Screen
Upstairs
Afternoon
Room
Use
Keep
The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.
Leigh Whannell
Time
Writing
Nothing
Blank
Blank Page
Blank Slate
Writing Process
Been
Stone
Where
Process
Page
Slate
Set
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Smart
Face
Babies
Tell
Responsive
Clean
Blank
Emotion
Wiped
Between
Difference
If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?
Marianne Elliott
Success
You
Say
Blank
Blank Canvas
Pick
Put
Up
Front
Going
Canvas
Paintbrush
Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.
Marie Lu
Me
Writing
Words
Will
First
Difficult
Incredibly
Once
Way
Though
See
Ripping
About
Scenes
Through
Blank
Blank Page
New
Because
Terrifying
Around
Always
Go
Up
New Story
Story
Happily
Moving
Them
Working
Page
Draft
A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
Mario Testino
Me
People
Girl
Photographers
Bland
Blank
Like
Dolls
Lot
Models
Influence
Playing
I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.
Martina McBride
Love
You
Together
Picture
See
Blank
Blank Canvas
Come
So Much Fun
Want
Canvas
Create
Much
Producing
Fun
Start
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.
Masi Oka
You
Yourself
Opportunity
Thought
College
Be Yourself
Other
Saw
Brown
Individual
Blank
Blank Slate
Had
Allowed
Like
Know
Schools
Because
Said
Got
Go
Friends
Going
Just
Different
Different Schools
Unique
Chose
Slate
You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.
Melissa Leo
Me
You
Conversation
Mind
Starts
Blank
Question
Informed
Interested
Communicating
Ask
Popping
Now
Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
Michael Beck
Life
Art
Day
Yourself
Every Day
My Life
Feeling
Down
Every
Collaborative
Kind
Blank
Blank Page
Sitting
Being
Different
Form
Social
Page
Actor
Interpretive
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
Michael Morpurgo
Time
Best
Face
Sit
Down
Tell
Best Friend
Blank
Blank Page
Talking
Am
Go
Friend
Grandchildren
Page
By The Time
I like making things. I enjoy putting words and images on a blank space. There should be joy in the writing itself because parts of it are so challenging and lonesome. I take great pleasure in reading, researching, and interviewing. I enjoy forming my sentences and revising them to make them clean.
Min Jin Lee
Great
Writing
Joy
Words
Space
Lonesome
Reading
Enjoy
Interviewing
Pleasure
Clean
Great Pleasure
Blank
Take
Putting
Like
Make
Parts
Because
Making
Revising
Itself
Forming
Them
Sentences
Should
Researching
Challenging
Things
Images
I don't think I would have made 'Blank Project; if I hadn't made 'Cherry Thing.' I think that was a real rebirth in a way, and a remembrance of how I like to make music best, the most. Like being in a more chaotic place, maybe. Like a place of making and being creative where the mistakes can be left in.
Neneh Cherry
Music
Best
Creative
Made
Mistakes
Think
Chaotic
Project
Way
Would
More
Blank
Remembrance
Like
Most
Make
How
Making
Real
Cherry
Left
Maybe
Being
Where
Place
Rebirth
Thing
I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.
Neneh Cherry
Time
Best
Myself
You
First
Think
Addicted
Project
Slightly
Carrying
Best Time
About
Something
Blank
Know
Because
Around
First Time
Always
How
Making
Doing
Been
Repeating
Often
Where
Why
Thing
I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her blank stares and her lashing out in some interviews, I think, gave voters pause about her, too.
Nicolle Wallace
Feeling
Think
Too
Gave
Secret
Interviews
Out
Some
About
Blank
Had
Voters
Concerns
Just
Pause
Special
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Her
Palin
The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
Patricia Briggs
Work
Day
Home
Morning
Writing
Sometimes
Every
Typical
About
Blank
Write
Never
Head
Days
Come
Off
Get
Going
Rhythm
Straight
Then
Really
Next
Cool
Cool Thing
Thing
Utterly
Night
Two
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
Patti Smith
Christmas
Day
Me
Mother
Year
Every
Those
Tell
Would
Slot
Give
Give Me
Blank
Cheap
Provide
Diaries
Little
Your
Used
Each
Each Day
My idea of fun is to sit looking at a blank wall in a cottage, making up stories in utter silence. The thought of going back to work in an office is horrendous.
Paula Hawkins
Work
Silence
Thought
Looking
Sit
Back
Horrendous
Cottage
Blank
Idea
Making
Making Up
Up
Wall
Office
Going
Stories
Fun
Utter
When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.
Paulina Porizkova
Work
You
Too Much
Think
Too
Pretty
Blank
Go
Model
Much
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
Writing
Doctor
Psychic
Believe
Type
Back
Complete
Magic
Tend
Blank
Instance
Soon
Wrote
Geography
Oh
Just
Stop
Being
Again
Them
Full
Believed
Things
Last
Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.
Peter Landesman
Lying
Paper
Sign
Thousands
Fed
Blank
Blank Paper
Sheets
Said
Fake
Been
His
Deathbed
Salvador
Salvador Dali
Dali
My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.
Petra Collins
Time
Home
Space
Mind
Live
Changing
Blank
Blank Slate
Come
Aesthetic
Fixed
Just
Slate
Need
There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give writers a first draft or a starter kit, so it could enable people to be more prolific in their writing.
Philip M. Parker
You
People
Writing
First
Stumble
Algorithm
Prolific
Give
More
Kit
Could
Blank
Blank Page
Writers
Enable
Lot
Want
Page
Who
Draft
Starter
Imagine
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
You
School
Design
Thinking
Constantly
Wear
About
More
Blank
Blank Canvas
Colors
Shapes
Knowing
Catholic
Comfort
Catholic School
Years
Going
Just
Where
Want
Patterns
Canvas
Wore
Uniform
I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and others I know, feeling blank and depressed at the end of a day. I also believe that hyped expectations for raising children leaves many women and men feeling as if their days are a blur of carpools and play-groups and tutors.
Rebecca Traister
Day
Me
Technology
Women
Phones
Smart
Men
Feeling
Believe
Think
Others
Hyped
Blank
Computers
Days
Know
Also
Leaves
Women And Men
End
Expectations
Often
Children
Blur
Availability
Depressed
Tutors
Many
Raising
Raising Children
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