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Author:Xavier Dolan

“I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.”

Two Real Influence Grew Mom Grew Up Understood Raised Males My Mom Two Sisters

Author:Todd Phillips

“My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.”

Art Artist Influence Europe My Favorite Contemporary Contemporary Art Favorite Artist

Author:Tracey Emin

“Biggest influence: my mother.”

Mother Influence

Author:Charles Stross

“T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.”

Book House Generations Influence Enormous Pounds My Generation Eliot

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.”

Trying Stuff Influence

Author:S. E. Hinton

“What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level of activity.”

People Way Looks Important Play Feelings Levels Emotion Roles Influence Fashion Activity Regard Practicals Aesthetic

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.”

People Influence Frightened

Author:Damien Hirst

“When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Parent Sides Term Levels Influence Backgrounds Intense Activist Grandfather Privileged Uncles Both Sides Exposure My Grandfather Eccentric

Author:Edward Norton

“There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.”

People Writing Book Helping Wanted Decision Influence Position Decided

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm behind the calculation. If there's an algorithm, it can be gamed. Even if it's not gameable, you have to take a leap of faith that the number of followers, retweets, mentions, whatever really mean something.”

Ifs Mean Fun Numbers Behinds Influence Computer Various Score Leap Followers Really Mean Measurement Calculations Algorithms Leap Of Faith Retweet

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.”

Trying Two Bigs Three Next Behinds Generations Influence Mines Ambition Next Generation Three Generations

Author:James Frey

“Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.”

World Way Saws Influence Direct Terrorist Novelists Nonsense Comparison

Author:Don DeLillo

“I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me. I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society - which is true in all his books.”

Thinking Way Persons Has Beens Book Ideas Bigs Individual Influence Appreciate Grateful Connected Admire

Author:Alan Lightman

“My mother made sure we stayed involved in the church and the things of God. My relationship with Christ came about through that and the influences of my mother and grandmother helped my faith to grow.”

Made Mother Grows Christ Church Influence Involved Grandmother Mother And Grandmother

Author:Torii Hunter

“I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Important Helping Enjoy Interesting Novel Written Influence Exciting Praise Conclusion Novelists Editors Doing Right Unwritten

Author:Donna Tartt

“No, it’s very comforting actually, to know that you’re sitting in a long legacy of actresses who’ve played the role. I’m absolutely all for absorbing all of those influences, so you understand the pedigree of the part as much as you understand the figure in history… because you are playing the part. You don’t say: “Gosh, I want to play Peter Sellers…” because you can sort of do that in your own bathroom.”

Knows Want Long Play Roles Influence Figures Sitting Actresses Legacy Peter Bathroom Comforting Absorbing Sellers Pedigree Long Legs

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.”

People Way Mean Important Happens Action Moving Consciousness Attitude Environment Wife Influence Behavior Clothes Instant Gestures Toilets Here And Now Our Words

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?”

Wells Use Able Form Used Term Issues Influence Effects Capacity Direct Latin Posse Use Of Power

Author:Al Gini

“You are the single biggest influence in your life.”

Influence

Book:What I Know For Sure

Source: What I Know For Sure

“We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.”

America Form Culture Influence Television Shapes Western Britain Australia Civilisation Great Britain English Speaking Britain And America

Author:Richard O'Brien

“The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world.”

World Done Opportunity Influence Talent Fronts Genius Patterns Circles Bless Thy Will Be Done Circle Of Influence

Author:Robert G. Allen

“The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.”

Growth Effort Influence England Resistance Immense Parliamentary

Book:Epochs of American History

Source: Epochs of American History

“Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.”

People Ifs Knows Christian Jesus Influence Produce Conscious Notion Cease Christian Life Characteristics Commonplace Loveliness Implicit

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interferes with private affairs; where the government is least felt; where the individual has the greatest scope, and free opinion the greatest influence; where the administrative powers are fewest and simplest; where taxes are lightest and most nearly equal”

People Country Government Law Found Individual Felt Moral Opinion Influence Taxes Equal Affair Peaceful Interfere Simplest Scope Administrative Free Opinion

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign finance reform would be irrelevant. After all, why would anyone spend money for influence, access, favors and tribute if the only thing that politicians do is to live up to their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution?”

“Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.”

May Mean Action Opinion Enemy Influence Duty Pure Activity Messages Sacred Obstacles Spread Deception Triumph Zeal Civics Propagation Fabricate

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

“We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.”

Believe Facts Seems Influence Scientist Distrust Remarks Eloquent

Book:Princ Literary Criticism

Source: Princ Literary Criticism

“The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.”

Important Running Pain Ability Effort Quality Influence Acceptance Capacity Extremes Factors Fatigue Will Power

Author:Jim Fixx

“Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?”

People Influence Vote Election Library Bars Election Day

Author:Arthur D. Hlavaty

“The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.”

Has Beens Two Different Law Causes Influence Greed Naked Philanthropy

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born.”

Years Government Born Influence Independent Educational Republic Schooling Subsidies

Author:Marshall Fritz

“Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.”

Kind Stills Courses Energy Influence Havens Skills

Author:David Hockney

“A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.”

People World Want Country Nations Loses Moral Influence Military Morality Authority Humble Factors Around The World Arrogant Be Humble

Book:Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

Source: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

“Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.”

Heart Mean Purpose Culture Technology Influence Evolution Shapes Myth Narrative Circuits Reciprocal

Book:Utopian Entrepreneur

Source: Utopian Entrepreneur

“We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.”

Kind Government Too Much Influence Judgment Pressure Cease Representatives Clamor Tumult Representative Government Outside Influences

Book:The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

“The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.”

World May Has Beens Political Social Realizing Influence Civilization Discovery Method Distance Profound Wave Educational Hearing Providing Electrical

Author:Joseph John Thomson

“A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.”

World Country America Evil Nations Secret Influence Land Combination

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.”

Knows Stills Sometimes Hard Wife Influence Hard Work My Wife

Author:Guy Ritchie

“My main influence is - it's music. It lifts the spirit. I am always listening to music. And sometimes what inspires me is a little sound or some small arrangement. I really do listen to music continuously all day long - very loud, so people can't stand to be around me anymore.”

People Littles Long Sometimes Spirit Sound Influence Inspire Listening Lifts Loud Arrangements Listening To Music

Author:Donatella Versace

“It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and there are so many amazing actors out there that you'll never really see or hear of simply because they don't have someone of influence backing them.”

Self Actors Easy Loses Influence Possibility Self Confidence Trials Rejection

Author:Irena A. Hoffman

“The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.”

Influence Corruption Cycles Bureaucracy Vicious Vicious Cycles Peddling Cronyism

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe.”

Thinking Way Bigs Artist Attention Fans Influence Europe Holmes Conan Baudelaire

Author:Raul Garcia

“A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.”

America Culture Influence Incredibles Invisible Contemporary Insidious African Culture

Author:Wangechi Mutu

“It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.”

Would Be Literature Difficult Influence Degrees Difficulty

Book:Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

“Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.”

Thinking Firsts Made Body Care Culture Energy Understanding Ability Consciousness Influence Activity Factors Diets Our Society Affected Inherent Heredity

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed”

People Knows Running Law Influence Members Office Connections Legislature Citizens United

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.”

Way Sometimes Home Seems Influence Musician Draws Jazz Musical Studios Primaries Capture Peter Guitarist Playgrounds Versatile Recording Studio Wellspring Brazilian Music

Author:Andrew S. Gilbert

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