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I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.
Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal.
Don't get me wrong, The Beatles are one of our all-time favourite bands, but there's a lot more we were influenced by.
I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.
Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.
I've lived through a lot of dark environments one way or another while growing up and that has influenced my songwriting.
I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.
I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.
For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater.
A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.
Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.
I used to watch everybody's stuff, but I found I would get slightly influenced by the other comics. I try to avoid it now.
I have been tremendously impacted and influenced by my coaches. It's nice to play for people that are going to support you.
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
I've listened to a lot of different styles of music growing up, and they've all influenced me at different times in my life.
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.
I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's beyond me.
I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.
Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
The character of Bipasha in 'Raaz 3' is not influenced by Ameesha. It's just about understanding women and their insecurities.
I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
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.
I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by such surroundings.
Jurgen has a very proactive way to play, he set marks in Germany with his kind of football and that really influenced my style.
Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.
Melissa Caplan made my costumes from the 70s to the mid-80s. I was very influenced by futurism and reading a lot of Marge Piercy.
Britain has always been a nation with a strong global focus. We have influenced change and built strong ties all round the world.
Rajini sir has always been a part of my life from childhood. And I entered into filmmaking because I was influenced by his films.
He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
It's really weird when you realize the people you look up to - who have influenced or inspired you - start to realize what you do.
I grew up influenced by different cultures, sounds, feelings, emotions, and I want Premiere Classe to be a representation of that.
The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
I believe every photographer is influenced by their sexual preference in a greater or lesser way, and it certainly has affected me.