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" After the acquisition of id by Zenimax, we had sort of taken the mobile platform team down to a skeleton crew. We were left with about two people who were finishing up the previous obligations on that. The rest had just been dispersed and absorbed by the other teams in the company. "

" America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. "

Ellsworth Huntington

" An ancient Scythian nomad skeleton buried with an eagle was reportedly excavated near Aktobe Gorge, Kazakhstan. Ancient petroglyphs in the Altai region depict eagle hunters, and inscribed Chinese stone reliefs show eagles perched on the arms of hunters in tunics, trousers, and boots, identified as northern nomads (1st to 2nd century A.D.). "

" Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape. "

" I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours. "

" I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out. "

Christopher McQuarrie

" If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. "

George Bernard Shaw

" If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext. "

" If you look at the skeleton, the start is very important. "

Greg Rutherford

" 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. "

" I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton. "

Stellan Skarsgard

" I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts. "

" In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart. "

" In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline. "

" I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template. "

" I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that. "

" I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken. "

" I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe. "

" Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton. "

Donald Johanson

" Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.' "

" My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton. "

Michael Douglas

" Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique. "

Caroline Lawrence

" Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. "

" Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis. "

Zeresenay Alemseged

" The general framework of the body is built up mainly of a series of bones, supplemented, however, in certain regions by pieces of cartilage; the bony part of the framework constitutes the skeleton. "

" The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later. "

" There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. "

" There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge. "

" There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.' "

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