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  • Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
  • Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
  • Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

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  • Victor Serge I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
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  • Gaston Bachelard A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • A. R. Ammons Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Andy Warhol I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Steve Martin I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
    Steve Martin
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Blank If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Anthony Doerr It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Barbara Januszkiewicz Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
    Barbara Januszkiewicz
    American painter (1955 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Arthur Blank My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Al Jarreau My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Arthur Blank My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Cormac McCarthy 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.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Barbara Lee Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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