When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.
Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.
In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!
The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.
I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.
That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.
Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.
I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.
I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it's so cool, and I've grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.
There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.
One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
In beauty, there's this idea of this perfect picture, and I think, 'How about being present in the now, and a little messy?'
We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
