Zitat des Tages über Unbeschriebenes Blatt / Blank Slate:
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
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.
I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.
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.
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.
For me, actresses are constantly chameleons, and so they are taking a backseat to their own personality. I don't feel like we're trying to show off their personality as much as let them be a blank slate. It's precisely the reason why I dress more musicians than I do actresses.
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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.
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.
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.