Ann Turner

When I first began to have the initial idea for 'Heartsease,' I just wrote a skeleton story; that is, I started her off as this young, bright 16-year-old and then added the events that occurred and where she and other characters fitted in, even writing 3 different endings, as I was not sure where Mary's story would lead to.

American Writer

Peter Jackson

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

New Zealander Director

Denis Leary

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

American Actor

Vikrant Massey

I'm not a trained actor. I have neither read acting books nor gone to acting school. But I have certain fundamentals on how I approach a character; the basic skeleton of my preparation is based on observations from real life.

Indian Actor

Sarah Pinborough

With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many other factors influence it. It's just a whole different kind of storytelling.

English Writer

Andrea Jeremiah

I have always been open about the way I live my life, because hiding skeletons in the closet and presenting a picture-perfect image is not my style.

Indian Actress

Christopher McQuarrie

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.

American Director

Henry Miller

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

American Author

George Bernard Shaw

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

Irish Playwright

Greg Rutherford

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

British Athlete

Refers to all the bones in a body, often used in education and science.

Anatomical Term

In conversation, 'skeleton' may mean a full set or just part of the bones.

Not Always Complete

Used in expressions to refer to the most basic form of something.

Metaphorical Use

Conveys a strong image of someone being extremely thin, often due to illness.

Descriptive Imagery

Calling someone a 'skeleton' can be offensive or hurtful, use with caution.

Potentially Sensitive

Emphasizes the simplest or most essential aspects of something, leaving out details.

Simplification

Refers to the basic elements that underpin and give shape to something larger or complex.

Foundational Structure

In sports, 'skeleton' is specific to a sledding discipline, not related to anatomy.

Sports Equipment

Recognize the term as an official Winter Olympic event; it has international significance.

Olympic Sport

In construction, it refers to a building's supporting structure, typically made of steel or wood.

Building Basics

Indicates an early phase of construction when the basic structure is visible.

Early Construction Stage

 hand that off to the biomechanics to explain how it could get away with lightening the skeleton as much as it did it wasn't I don't think a flotation device I think it was just trying to reduce the amount of living tissue it had to support and still get by and it was doing it quite successfully because it was the most common large herbivore

Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...

 creating an alkaline buffer zone and this is important because with ocean acidification and other factors corals have a hard time getting the calcium carbonate they need to build their exoskeletons so essentially we're giving them skeletons so they can use their energy for other vital factors other vital activities like reproduction they

How can sculptures save...

 Not only that, but during life, bones undergo a constant cycle of remodeling. So if someone moves from one place to another, bones synthesized after that move will also reflect the new isotopic signatures of the surrounding environment. That means that skeletons can be used like migratory maps.

What can you learn from...

 While the lattice itself is not made of living cells, networks of blood vessels, nerves and other living tissues grow through special channels and passages. And over the course of development, a legion of osteoblasts reinforce the skeleton that protects our organs, allows us to move,

How to grow a bone -...

 This is where things get even more interesting. Vertebrates like us have a rigid skeleton to support our bodies, with joints that allow us to move. But not all types of movement are allowed. You can't bend your knee backwards, or bend your forearm in the middle, for example.

Why the octopus brain is...

 so printing houses popped up all over Europe. The product of this bibliographic boom is familiar to us in some respects, but markedly different in others. The skeleton of the book is paper, type, and cover.

The evolution of the...

 This isn't the parent. This is a Skorpiovenator, a predator. The skeleton found at the nest site was almost certainly a nest raider, preying on the hatchlings.

The Biggest Dinosaur...

 If my skeleton is discovered thousands of years from now, I'll be labeled male. Is that the truth? My balls would say so. But what about the rest of me?

The way we think about...

 had been carefully laid out on the sea floor at first the skeleton seemed totally abandoned but even after so long there

The Blue Planet...

 the skeleton found at the nest site was almost certainly a nest raider preying on the hatchlings

Skeleton