[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.
On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
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.
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
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.
The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.
I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
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.
I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original.
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
For choice, I prefer not to be a public figure. I don't have Tom Cruise's good looks. I don't have a need to be on the front page of fill-in-the-blank.
I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
A lot of the fear about being a first-time director is just starting with a completely blank slate and thinking: 'Is this going to connect with anybody?'
For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.
The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.
It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
When I was 13, I went on 'Britain's Got Talent.' I auditioned. I sang a cover of a song called 'White Blank Page' by Mumford & Sons.
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.
As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.
I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.
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.
Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this blank space?
The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.
Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.
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.
Pureed soups kinda suck. By definition, they have one flavor and one texture, a visual blank space where something much more interesting should be.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.
To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.
I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.
I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.
If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces
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