Activist Quote by Edward Norton

My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.

— Martine Syms

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

— Mandy Patinkin

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history,…

— James Ellroy

My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.

— Paloma Elsesser

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never…

— Sonia Rykiel

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state…

— Frank Auerbach

It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.

— Ashleigh Murray

I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films and also…

— Steven Price

There were so many different influences in my life: being half Mexican and half Irish, growing up an only child of immigrant parents, being…

— Lindi Ortega

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

— Viggo Mortensen

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky