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When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.
Jonathan Ames
Teacher
Myself
Good
Character
Me
Writing
Personality
College
Carol
Bit
Could
Take
Had
Joyce
Particularly
She
Done
Create
Aspect
Fortune
Novels
Good Fortune
Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are my comedic influences. I like a lot of dudes, too, like Bill Murray and Will Ferrell.
Kaitlin Olson
Will
Too
Carol
Carol Burnett
Will Ferrell
Like
Comedic
Dudes
Julia
Lot
Influences
Burnett
Bill
Bill Murray
In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.
Katharine Viner
World
Carol
Poetry
Superstar
British
I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.
Leah Remini
Jealous
People
Remember
Laughter
Made
Feeling
Big
Carol
Carol Burnett
Kid
Laugh
Someone
Like
Make
Always
Got
Big Fan
Heard
Child
Trying
Fan
Burnett
Little
Them
Watched
'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with the idea of a children's book, and that eventually became 'Noel.' And I just kept finding these parallels between things I could do with Batman and Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.'
Lee Bermejo
Christmas
Book
Dark
Batman
Carol
Parallels
Finding
Charles
Charles Dickens
Something
Brutal
Could
Joker
Idea
Between
Became
Around
Dickens
Just
Children
Heavy
Wanted
Little
Less
Eventually
Things
Played
Violent
Kept
I grew up in a time where on things like 'The Red Skeleton Show' or even to a certain extent on 'The Carol Burnett Show,' people wrote in the breakouts or ad-libs. They were scripted to look spontaneous. So I always had a dislike of that kind of thing.
Lorne Michaels
Time
People
Carol
Carol Burnett
Kind
Had
Red
Like
Spontaneous
Look
Wrote
Always
Were
Up
Where
Grew
Burnett
Skeleton
Scripted
Dislike
Certain
Certain Extent
Show
Show People
Even
Thing
Things
Extent
I only met Ian Fleming once, at a party given by my father's friend the director Carol Reed, at his house at 211 King's Road, Chelsea, the garden of which he shared with Peter Ustinov.
Michael Korda
Director
Garden
Father
King
Party
Met
Once
Carol
Given
Only
He
Shared
Road
House
Chelsea
Reed
His
Friend
Which
Fleming
Peter
I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.
Mickey Sumner
Myself
Stage
Carol
Atlantic
Had
Couple
Pinch
Times
Kane
Actually
I was obsessed with Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin; I watched 'Mama's Family' religiously.
Natasha Rothwell
Family
Carol
Carol Burnett
Obsessed
Lily
Mama
Burnett
Watched
I was driving my 1959 Chevy Impala down King's Highway in Brooklyn with the top down, and I heard 'Oh! Carol' on three stations at the same time while I was channel surfing. I knew then that I made it.
Neil Sedaka
Time
Made
King
Three
Down
Channel
Top
Carol
Stations
Brooklyn
Driving
Knew
Highway
Surfing
Chevy
Heard
Same
Oh
Same Time
While
Then
The most challenging roles were Disney's 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Mars Needs Moms' because they were both motion capture, so there was a lot of physical work involved.
Raymond Ochoa
Work
Christmas
Needs
Carol
Mars
Physical
Both
Most
Involved
Because
Motion
Were
Lot
Roles
Disney
Moms
Capture
Challenging
I cannot sit here and say I was beaten by Carol Miller. Because Carol Miller did not show up. She did not debate me. She basically avoided everything and just said, 'I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump.' And sadly, that's apparently a victory here in a place like southern West Virginia.
Richard Ojeda
Me
Debate
Victory
Sit
Virginia
Everything
Carol
Say
Beaten
Like
Sadly
She
Because
Said
West
Trump
West Virginia
Up
Southern
Did
Just
Cannot
Place
Show
Avoided
Apparently
Miller
Here
Basically
I come from Carol City. The city renamed it Miami Gardens.
Rick Ross
Carol
City
Come
Miami
Gardens
I was very young when 'The Carol Burnett Show' came out, but that kind of comedy and the spontaneity of her, I think it really deeply affected me within just the joy of performance.
Sandra Oh
Me
Joy
Comedy
Young
Think
Carol
Carol Burnett
Out
Kind
Performance
Spontaneity
Within
Came
Affected
Very
Just
Burnett
Really
Show
Deeply
Her
It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.
Susan Hill
Work
Christmas
You
People
Build
Carol
Easy
Write
Five
Frighten
Short
Different
Screw
Short Story
Story
Length
Turn
Pages
The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.
Tim Conway
Family
People
Looking
Carol
Carol Burnett
Television
Ratings
Well
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Because
Around
Were
Did
Burnett
Show
Reason
Sat
Whole
Enjoyed
Watched
Zone
'Mildred' was the first film I shot on Super 16 with Ed Lachman, and we decided to continue doing so for 'Carol.'
Todd Haynes
First
Carol
Super
Doing
Continue
Decided
Shot
Film
'Carol' is so distorted by point-of-view.
Todd Haynes
Carol
Distorted
I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually felt less relevant to me in terms of their bigness, although we do have some big '50s-type moments in 'Carol.'
Todd Haynes
Time
Me
Looking
Big
Films
Carol
Relevant
Some
Almost
Terms
Although
Felt
Always
Were
Less
Moments
Actually
Started
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death.
Tom Shales
Death
Music
Time
Carol
Carol Burnett
TV
Brothers
Variety
Had
Red
Prime
Stuffed
Prime Time
Major
Hour
Talents
Making
Very
Commercials
Pryor
Common
Censored
Literally
Burnett
Richard
Richard Pryor
Used
Who
Shows
Brief
NBC
Treasured
Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
Vicki Lawrence
Day
Me
School
Everybody
Carol
Carol Burnett
High
High School
Like
Looked
Just
Burnett
People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
Vicki Lawrence
Together
People
Carol
Carol Burnett
Out
Would
Lawrence
Bless
Come
Brains
Get
Hearts
Burnett
I grew up in the age of variety shows. 'Flip Wilson,' 'Carol Burnett,' 'Donny and Marie,' and 'Sonny and Cher' - I never missed an episode. These shows had it all: singing, dancing, and sketch comedy. One minute, they're ice-skating with pyrotechnics, the next they're doing a scene on a gigantic set. I just couldn't get enough.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Age
Comedy
Singing
Enough
Dancing
Carol
Carol Burnett
One Minute
Gigantic
Wilson
Minute
Scene
Variety
Never
Had
Sonny
Missed
Doing
Up
Get
Just
Grew
Burnett
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Episode
Next
Flip
Shows
Marie
Set
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.
Whitley Strieber
Christmas
Me
Better
Result
First
Worse
Carol
Spirits
Write
Had
Put
Read
Years
Years Ago
Began
Grandfather
Plan
Grandson
Copy
Desk
'Poltergeist' terrifies me! When the little girl Carol Anne is talking to the TV, I get shivers every time.
Willow Shields
Time
Me
Girl
Every
Every Time
Carol
TV
Anne
Talking
Get
Little
Little Girl
When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
Zach Anner
Christmas
Old
Carol
Tim
Years
Five
Role
Tiny
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