“Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.” InfluenceHugeBowie Author:Adam Lambert
“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.” PeopleKnowsWritingHas BeensMotherTermCareersInfluenceHugeGrandmotherMy GrandmotherSupportiveWriting Life Author:Tea Obreht
“My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.” Has BeensFactsValuesStrongInfluenceHugeEnormousGrandmotherVery StrongMy GrandmotherFormidable Author:Anthony Minghella
“Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took up a lot of space musically in the songs was really important to the way Rush developed. Geddy and Neil both were such active players and lot of the time we were all playing like crazy and it was too much and somebody had to reel it in and me being the faceless guy, I would do that.” WayImportantGuySongThreeSpaceToo MuchPiecesPlayerCrazyInfluenceHugeBandActiveChordsFaceless Author:Alex Lifeson
“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.” HumansAbleWealthSimpleStudyGroupsInfluenceHugeAmountActivityConcernedLaborDirectEnormousIncomeCommandCivilizedPeasantsPriesthoodSurplusPeriodicity Author:Carroll Quigley
“My dad was a huge basketball influence in my life on and off the court. Playing for him and having him around, having him push me harder than maybe another coach would have was a huge blessing for me. Getting to play with my brother was an unreal experience at Oklahoma, in college, it's some of the funnest times I've had in basketball, and I'll cherish those memories forever.” PlayMemoriesForeverInfluenceCollegeBrotherHugeDadBlessingBasketballHarderCourtMy DadCoachesMy BrotherCherishUnrealAnd OffOklahoma Author:Blake Griffin
“I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.” WayWritingCountryFeelingsKidsSongTurnsDarkInfluenceHugeBrilliantCleverBitterObsessedPhrasesPun Author:Teddy Thompson
“People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.” PeopleSaidInfluenceHugeBeatsThey SaidHuntersHunter's Thompson Author:Corey Taylor
“I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.” PeopleTryingNumbersInfluenceHugePoliticianPressureOfficialsEducateRepresentativesEnlighteningEducatorElected OfficialsHuge Numbers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.” InfluenceHugeYeahRascals Author:Danny Brown
“My education was a huge influence. I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods, and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.” PeopleThinkingGivingMomentsFactsYoungActorsActingTeachInfluenceHugeMethodFoundationMysticismTangibleInstituteSpursYoung ActorsSpur Of The Moment Author:Roberto Aguire
“Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.” SpaceInfluenceFashionStyleHugeUniqueGaryFuturistic Author:Mayer Hawthorne
“Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.” AnimalInfluenceRocksHugeAlbumsRock N Roll Author:Al Jourgensen
“What I loved about [The Other Woman] movie was the same thing. It was three women who would never have come together for any other reason except that they had something in common which was this common cause, and that's really the feeling that I wanted this movie to have. It was a huge influence for it.” ReasonFeelingsWantedTogetherThreeCausesCommonInfluenceHuge Author:Leslie Mann
“As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended to think that ideology or religion were the things that actually changed people, but it's been proven that that's not the case. Technology has been proven to be the thing that's actually changing people. So in that sense, it's become a theme in Japanese culture.” PeopleThinkingWellsHas BeensCultureCasesTechnologyNovelInfluenceChangedHugeIdeologyThemeProvenAnimationJapanese CultureJapanese Animation Author:Mamoru Oshii
“The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.” PeopleKindCultureNextInfluenceRocksEventsPlanetsHugeMajorsMassExcitingCrowdsDecadesSpotsTheatricalMass Culture Author:Jim Morrison
“I think a shot can actually influence a scene in a huge way. For example, comedy is always better in a two-shot. What's between the characters is what's funny. So you learn about these things as you go along.” ThinkingWayTwoCharacterComedyInfluenceExampleHugeSceneShots Author:Emily Blunt
“The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.” IfsYearsRealityNumbersResponsibilityTalkingSeaInfluenceHugeScientistBasesEmbraceIceJournalistArcticHuge Numbers Author:Andrew Revkin
“It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.” WayResponsibilityInfluenceHugeStewards Author:Bill Hybels
“Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.” FeelsShouldTryingLooksMotherBornHalfOur LivesInfluenceTeachingHugeCautiousBe Cautious Author:Amy Tan
“The actor's relationship to the crew is really a big dynamic that influences everything. When actors are assholes, it becomes problematic. When actors are great and sensitive and prepared, it makes a huge difference.” BigsActorsDifferencesInfluenceHugePreparedSensitiveCrew Author:Paris Barclay
“I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies up until then, and they're a big influence on me and a big influence on Woody Allen, who is basically just ripping off Bob Hope for his first five or six movies.” FirstsBigsFiveFansInfluenceHugeSixLateBobWoody Author:Scott Aukerman
“Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.” WayCountryYoungFeltAudienceInfluenceTelevisionHugeAppealsMtvMoguls Book:Pride: the Charley Pride story Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story
“Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.” WayYearsMeanSchoolRealizingAttentionInfluenceStageHugeBandRedI RealizedSense Of HumorLooking BackSlyDemeanor Author:Jello Biafra
“Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at my little collection here. Let's see. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, The Talking Heads, Prince and the Revolution, Michael Jackson's Thriller was a huge one.” LooksLittlesLife IsTalkingInfluenceHugeRevolutionBandMusicalCollectionsBobDylanThrillersTalking HeadsMusical Influence Author:Jeremy Enigk
“Cormac McCarthy is my favorite author in the world. I love him so much. There's one book that informs me more than The Road - it's called Suttree. That book is a huge influence on me. I'm not smart enough to emulate him, but he inspires me. He never infiltrates my writing directly. He writes incredibly intelligently about people that are marginalized.” PeopleWorldWritingBookEnoughInfluenceInspireHugeSmartMy FavoriteEmulateI Love HimMarginalized Author:Matt de la Pena
“Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.” BodyMotherViewsInfluenceHugeDaughterTreats Author:Coco Rocha
“Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.” IfsMenWorldTryingYearsLooksOrderLiteratureMy OwnInfluenceHugeNeededPeriodsSolutionsWingsConvincedHipsSmokingDestroyingFifteenMy Own LifeHeroinBeing CoolFifteen YearsKennethFifteen Years Old Author:Sam Hamill
“I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians.” ThinkingKnowsBookInspirationCertainFoundInfluenceChildhoodHugeMagicianBrideshead Revisited Author:Hale Appleman
“I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother, I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway.” MotherCoursesInfluenceHugeMembersFemaleMy FamilyRaisedGrandmotherMy GrandmotherCousinAuntFamily MembersImmediate Family Author:Aeriel Miranda
“Where I grew up has had a huge influence on me. It's a place where there aren't many people and there's lots of sky.” PeopleSkyInfluenceHugeGrewGrew Up Author:John Cariani
“The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.” InfluenceHugeSceneBandTeenagerRiotBikinis Author:Kieran Hebden
“Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.” HardInfluenceHugeChekhov Author:Chad Harbach
“Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.” MenYearsComedyInfluenceHugeVersionsOld ManHello Author:Nick Kroll