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We had to write character sketches. I was so intimidated.


Karen Brown

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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
DAVID NICHOLLS I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about...
DAVID LEVITHAN All the woodwork was painted a dark brown. So we had to deal with the issue of paint first.
JOANNE MILNOR I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write musi...
DONALD GLOVER JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?
WILL & GRACE I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL It's been a circus, (but) we got so much stuff going on in the spring, I can understand it. Karen (H...
DANNY MITCHELL I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wa...
KAREN WHITE Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
OCTAVIA BUTLER The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex...
GENE LUEN YANG I was doing sketches that were funny, but socially irresponsible. It was encouraged.
DAVE CHAPPELLE I was born a character actor.
CHARLES DURNING This bird was particularly ornery. She had an attitude, which we like, but some of us were a little ...
MEGAN MOSBY I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a ch...
BOB KNIGHT David was adamant that the furniture had to include steel. Just by looking at his industrial work, w...
JOE KLOCEK I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches i...
DAVID WALLIAMS The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't yo...
JOAN FRANCES CASEY I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
ILANA GLAZER [Milano said she was at first intimidated because Doherty and Combs had an established friendship.] ...
ALYSSA MILANO What motivated Karen Golding to do the things we have charged, I can't tell you.
EDWARD JOHNSON For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of be...
SARAH MACLEAN Karen was a big key to the win. Her defense on Asia was phenomenal.
LYNN UST We form a team. Karen completes me.
RON REITZEL I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there we...
CAROL BURNETT I don't think we were intimidated.
LEWIS JACKSON Karen-she was all over you, your JLo's JMo
WILL & GRACE For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold.
JEFF LEMIRE I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final paint...
JACKSON POLLOCK So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were spea...
KEVIN MCDONALD Brown I was the policy statement, and Brown II was the remedy.
DAVE DOUGLAS I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being enc...
DAVE CHAPPELLE Coincidentally, we found out later that our Perkins Street house was also designed by the Bakewell B...
PETER BROOKS I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was...
EDDIE MURPHY My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no ch...
CHARLES BARKLEY I was born to travel and write verse.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was no...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE We realized we couldn't tell the difference between my sketches and Gene's. It was like we were the ...
DOUG MEYER They're not intimidated. It's so relaxed.
BUDD DITCHENDORF The whole team learned a lot tonight, ... I was glad to we had that situation where it was a close g...
ALLEN IVERSON Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself ou...
RACHEL JOYCE I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.
ANDREA MARTIN The last two years they knocked us out so we had to return the favor this year. It wasn't easy by an...
DON HENRY Unreal City, / Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, / A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, /...
T.S. ELIOT When your heart starts to feel full again. I love FREE refills, and if a restaurant tries to double ...
KAREN QUAN On the same lot where we were filming Date Movie was a movie that Hugh Grant was filming. I think he...
ADAM CAMPBELL It was great how we came back. We were down in the first half. ... We were intimidated because they ...
NICOLE LAWTON I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
DANIEL ALARCON I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a fin...
JACKSON POLLOCK I wrote comedy sketches in college.
ELLIE KEMPER We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
BOB COUSY I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had ...
KAREN JOY FOWLER I hope so, and I know Coach Brown hopes so.
DARRELL ROYAL I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
WALLY LAMB I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a ...
DANA CARVEY We had Katie (Ferguson) throw a lot before the game today because she needs a lot of warm-up, so I t...
KIM EVANS I was really disappointed. This year's field was much stronger. I let myself get intimidated.
ED MORAN We had one blond, but she dyed her hair brown.
TONIKA SIMMONS I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a m...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insuranc...
ALAN FURST When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.
CLAIRE FORLANI My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed...
JOSH RYAN EVANS Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mi...
GAYLE FORMAN Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would ha...
SAMANTHA HARVEY I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
A. S. BYATT We were intimidated when we came up here. We had a little fear in our hearts and you can't do that.
SAM SIDES Karen has this amazing ability to capture certain things, certain emotions, even in animals, that ar...
LAURA LACY I was very nervous. I didn't know what to expect because I hadn't seen Karen for 20 years. She hadn'...
PATRICK MCBRIDE I always felt like we were the underdogs. The girls just rose to the occasion. The girls never felt ...
KATHY LANTER I did do a local musical, 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar.' I played the young Sweet Georgia Brown...
CECE PENISTON I try to write characters that are normal, believable people with a unique sense of humor. I like ch...
TAYLOR FENNER I think the pursuit of this was overly aggressive, and this reeks of a personal vendetta to me on th...
ALAN SMITH I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
KATE DICAMILLO When I came to play in Pittsburgh, I had been in the league 11 years. I had been through the ringer ...
ED OLCZYK People here know that I don't get intimidated easily. I think the only thing I was worried about was...
JEFF CARTY At times, with other doctors, we as a family were made to feel that we didn't love Karen enough or t...
JOELLYN SCHULTZ Everything clicked for us this weekend. We had a real focused tournament. Being as young as we are, ...
DAVE GRACIA All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de...
JO NESBO Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so m...
BENNY GREEN I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she ...
STEPHEN COLBERT Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n...
W. P. KINSELLA You should be wearing green," she said. "To match your eyes."

"In case you never noticed,...
GENA SHOWALTER I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like ...
NOEL CLARKE I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long...
J. COLE I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to ...
TERRY GOODKIND I had a broom that I'd raise high in the air and the kids practiced shooting over the broom. I think...
JOEL RANKIN When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an Englis...
AASIF MANDVI I was nervous and a little bit intimidated. It was a new setting with new rules.
JACK SPIKER I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh...
LENNY BRUCE I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant ...
JOE WRIGHT It was my second film," said Brown. "It was all completely new to me and wonderful and amazing. I wo...
CLANCY BROWN We had to battle for this one. We went ahead, then they went ahead. It was a good character builder.
BARB MAROIS I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What ...
LENNY BRUCE I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabb...
DANIELA PESTOVA My wife Karen and I are so excited to be back home again in Indiana where the tradition of the great...
JEFF MEYER I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou...
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KAREN GILLAN I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creatin...
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KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER