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 try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
Regardless of political affiliation most of the policy/media world, as a subset of 'the educated classes' in general, tended to hold a broadly 'blank slate' view of the world mostly uninformed by decades of scientific progress.
It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.
To love shoes is to love problems. Every season, starting a new collection is my greatest challenge. The blank slate in front of me, starting the process all over again, there is no greater challenge.
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.
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.
Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.
