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You finish the damn match, point blank, period. That's it, and I always finish, even if I'm finishing on my back.
Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.
Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.
I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.
You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.
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?
Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a blank paper starting over.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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.'
If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
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.
Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.
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.
At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
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.
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.
With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
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.
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 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.
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.
There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.
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.
We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
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.
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
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.
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.
Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.
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.
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.