Joanne Rowling Quotes

[about his dress robes...] I’m never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never." "Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh.

Joanne Rowling

• Picture
• Laughing
• Dresses
• Naked

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• I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Comfortable
  • Favorite
  • Naked

• I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Dresses
  • Features

• I could live naked... I love it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Live
  • Love
  • Naked

• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Doubt

• I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Picture
  • Techniques
  • Fashions

• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Picture
  • Biography
  • Elizabeth I

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Beginning
  • Star

• I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Teenager
  • Dresses
  • Colors

• Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • War
  • Picture
  • Civil War

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Purpose
  • Best
  • Picture

• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Picture
  • Details
  • Filmmaking

• Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

  

  Becky G
  • Picture
  • Colors
  • Musically

• Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Painting

• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Remember
  • Picture
  • Window

• I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Myself
  • Picture
  • Mirror

• My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Dad
  • Understand

• There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Different
  • Family
  • Movie

• The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Work
  • House
  • Me

• You want to look for bright spots. If you're a fan who knows the game, I think you'd have to say we're better. I know I've had guys from other teams ask me, 'What's wrong over there? That's a good lineup. We haven't hit consistently. We haven't pitched consistently. And we haven't done both in the same games consistently.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Game
  • Fan
  • Teams

• [about his dress robes...] I’m never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never." "Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Picture
  • Laughing
  • Dresses