A Quote by Stephen Karam

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

Stephen Karam

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Drawn Sets Skill Writers

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Stephen Karam
American - Playwright

There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

Fred Ritchin

On shipbuilding, on submarine building, warship building, coastal surveillance or small vessel building, we have both public and private sector. The capacities have really been scaled up, and the skill sets, hi-tech skill sets, have been acquired.

Nirmala Sitharaman

The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

Sam Shepard

In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.

Michael Ellsberg

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.

Bill Gates

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

Garry Trudeau

If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.

Annie Golden

As I've been teaching longer and longer, I realize I learn so much from the voices I'm naturally drawn to, the writers I love on an instinctive level - but I also learn so much from the writers that I have to work to grasp.

Tracy K. Smith

Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

Gayle Forman

There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.

Daniel Lyons

For a little while I kind of shunned away from the media and just concentrated on my skill sets and performing and I got that down.

Cub Swanson

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

Neil Patrick Harris

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.