- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sketch Quotes
Where every finished idea begins.
This set covers sketch in two senses - the comedy-writing kind, rewritten around a table until the jokes land, and the drawing kind, the pencil outline a dress or a film starts from before anything is fixed. Both share a respect for the rough first pass, a theme also found in our Creativity collection.
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- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to do a sketch show. And they've sort of gone out of fashion for a bit, or they've just stopped doing them for whatever reason.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've only written stand-up and sketch before, so writing something long-form on my own is proving quite difficult. But I'm enjoying it as well.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel like anything benefits from character logic. That can be from the dumbest ad to the greatest Shakespearean drama to the silliest 'Saturday Night Live' sketch. There is a certain specificity in detail, which you can get when you're paying attention to stuff like that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just written this six-part sketch comedy series, which I've never done before. And I don't know how to pitch it. Am I supposed to just pick up a camera and put stuff on YouTube? Is that how it works?
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't understand when somebody thanked me for writing a good sketch, because it was something I wanted to do, but now I totally get it, because when someone writes something great for me, I'm so appreciative.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.
- Room
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- Nov 07, 2020