Best Influenced Me Quotes
74 Influenced Me quotes by 69 unique authors
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The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,…
— George Orwell
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I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing…
— Mick Jagger
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I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the…
— Douglas Preston
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I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity…
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No…
— Charles Darwin
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
— Tanith Lee
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
— Sam Mendes
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The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.
— Roberto Benigni
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I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything,…
— Stanley Donen
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The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in…
— Stanley Donen
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't…
— Nell Freudenberger
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So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the…
— Cee Lo Green
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The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
— James Cameron
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One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.
— Rebecca Hall
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I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been…
— Masashi Kishimoto
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I don't live by 'The Rules' you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is…
— David
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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
— Charles de Gaulle
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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European…
— Vaclav Havel
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When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop…
— Alicia Keys
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There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music,…
— Queen Latifah
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One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt…
— Lisa Loeb
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I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo,…
— Moby
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The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
— Colin Mochrie
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What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for…
— Alanis Morissette
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The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the…
— Emma Thompson
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