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I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out a joke, how to stick with it for a while. It also made me more confident onstage as a performer.
Jermaine Fowler
Me
People
Writing
School
Wait
Made
Joke
Out
High
High School
About
Structure
More
Onstage
Performer
Since
Also
Stick
How
Been
Friends
Confident
Taught
While
Sketches
Really
I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.
Jerrod Carmichael
Great
Me
Advice
Gave
Kid
Out
Characters
Telling
Followed
Never
Comedian
Doing
Friend
Loved
Sketches
Then
Shot
Really
Should
Her
Playing
Kept
Set
I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.
Jerry Trainor
Funny
School
Thought
Live
Way
Definitely
Musicals
High
High School
About
Knew
Know
Comedies
How
Doing
Go
Wanted
Loved
Sketches
Then
Found
Actor
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
Plays
As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.
Jhonen Vasquez
Me
Preparation
Tell
Outlines
Had
Idea
Along
Got
Dialogue
Came
Did
Just
Wanted
Sketches
Then
Page
Use
Less
Farther
Series
Vague
Vague Idea
Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
Jim Rash
Journey
You
Learning
Writing
Characters
About
Also
Bigger
Sketches
Translate
Things
'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.
Joe Flaherty
Live
Group
Ensemble
Broader
Ours
More
Concept
Doing
Were
Than
Sketches
Satirical
Saturday
Saturday Night
Things
Universal
Night
I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.
John Katzman
You
People
Slick
Everything
Collaboration
Marketing
Responding
Out
Look
Makes
Always
How
Making
Am
Dialogue
Campaign
Information
Them
Sketches
Notes
Should
Helps
Mapping
Publishing
Present
Start
Desktop
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.
John Van Hamersveld
Own
Design
Drawing
Drawn
Photograph
Poster
Composition
My Own
Could
Shapes
Abstract
Identity
Built
Vernacular
Lines
After
Sketches
Create
Use
Graphic
Serve
Larry
Portrait
Started
Number
I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.
Jon Favreau
Character
You
Long
Nice
Think
Pretty
About
Checking
Course
Proud
How
Doing
Up
Just
Story
Sketch
Sketches
Keep
Film
Why
Play
Grows
Actually
Elf
Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.
Jonas Mekas
Videos
Long
Fragments
Consist
One Or Two
Thousands
Minutes
Most
Sketches
Two
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.
Joyce Carol Oates
Time
Me
Writing
Year
Months
Would
My Time
Maiden
Write
Take
Along
Fair
Perhaps
Ideas
Most
Wrote
Fairly
Existed
Began
Intense
Rewriting
Stories
Sketches
Notes
Really
Swiftly
Traveled
Eventually
Two
Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
Lana Turner
Draws
About
Know
She
Sketches
Acting
Inclined
Color is definitely an important factor for me during all phases of producing a cover. I always start out with a loose idea of what I want to see when I'm doing my initial sketches. This choice can be informed by anything, but I usually tend to lean toward more simple color schemes... something with a very obvious push between warms and cools.
Lee Bermejo
Me
Simple
Important
Definitely
Out
See
Something
More
Tend
Color
Factor
Schemes
Push
Idea
Toward
Between
Lean
Obvious
Loose
Always
Doing
Cover
Very
Want
Anything
Informed
Sketches
Choice
Producing
Initial
Start
Phases
I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room.
Lee Ranaldo
Time
Best
Together
Youth
Writing
Own
Down
Group
Setting
Our
Our Time
Member
Outlet
My Own
Cassette
Main
Songs
Written
Songwriting
Sonic
Sonic Youth
Putting
Most
Sort
Were
Been
Years
Years And Years
Tapes
Forever
Getting
Where
Room
Them
Sketches
Us
Four
During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.
Martin Filler
Later
Scale
Jobs
Vanguard
Architect
Steady
Small
Both
Supply
Ideas
Period
Modern
Often
Public
Sketches
Translated
Income
Larger
Larger Scale
Residential
Serve
I think I saw 'Ghost' at, like, 6 or 7 - like, a little too early to see 'Ghost' - but I would watch Whoopi over any kids' thing. Everything she did was so funny, and all of her scenes are almost like sketches.
Nicole Byer
Funny
Think
Too
Everything
Saw
Ghost
Kids
Would
See
Scenes
Almost
Over
Like
She
Did
Any
Little
Sketches
Her
Thing
Watch
Early
I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
Paula Pell
You
People
Matter
Care
About
Felt
Always
Sketches
Then
Even
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
Pierre Loti
Books
Draws
Attention
Pictures
Always
Idly
Were
Covered
His
Task
Which
Stained
Sketches
Full
Ink
Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Work
Humanity
Creation
Every
Side
Still
Surround
Gradual
Which
Centre
Sketches
Us
Successive
Sapiens
Homo
Homo Sapiens
Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!
Pranav Mistry
Time
You
Engineer
Architect
Drew
Invented
Writer
He
Know
Were
Did
Sketches
Helicopters
Painter
Even
Biologist
I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.
Richard Wagner
Myself
Strength
Distract
Enough
Constantly
Head
New
Opera
Around
Them
Sketches
Extent
Here
Buzzing
Need
I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people's shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years.
Rob Riggle
People
Nights
Other
Took
Seven
Classes
About
Week
Could
Performed
Lights
Wrote
Around
Sound
Years
Improv
Did
Just
Theater
Sketch
Sketches
Shows
I have a showroom where we experiment with twelve cakes. We develop sketches and ideas for cakes for the next season. We work with the top fashion designers to see what type of lace they are using or work with the top florist for us to be able to make various sugar roses or flowers.
Ron Ben-Israel
Work
Fashion
Experiment
Sugar
Type
Top
See
Able
Various
Develop
Cakes
Ideas
Make
Lace
Where
Sketches
Us
Next
Roses
Using
Twelve
Season
Florist
Designers
Flowers
When I'm stopped in the street, people want to talk about 'The Two Ronnies' and the sketches we did.
Ronnie Corbett
People
About
Talk
Did
Stopped
Want
Sketches
Street
Two
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
Rowan Atkinson
Comedy
Half
Monty
Monty Python
Kind
Seems
Crowd
Headed
Python
Sort
Cambridge
Doing
Came
Tradition
Oxford
Them
Sketches
Thing
Jewel
Two
The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.
Ruth Buzzi
Love
Great
Me
Comedy
Some
Martin
Given
Variety
Writers
Hysterical
Highlights
Hour
Got
Dean
Dean Martin
Doing
Handed
Again
Sketches
Original
Shows
Tons
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