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But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
I think it's safe to say that 'Half-Life' was influenced by every first person action game that preceded it.
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.
I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.
Our experience on 'Avatar' heavily influenced how we approached 'The Dragon Prince' and how we built our team.
I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.
In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.
Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts.
I learned then that an actor must always be himself, and must not be influenced by the people with whom he works.
I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.
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.
I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
I'm influenced by those '40s, '50s, and '60s films: things like 'The Apartment' - I was a big fan of Billy Wilder.
I am not that cute. However, because I had played so many cute characters, I am starting to be influenced by them.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
One day, I'd like to tackle a biopic. I grew up very influenced by Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone.
I'm heavily influenced by the Nineties - I love juxtaposing a slip dress with trainers and a vintage leather jacket.
I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
I grew up in Chennai and was very much influenced by Rajinikant's stardom and importance of cinema in Tamil culture.
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.
Having served in both Pakistan and India, I'm familiar with how their nuclear armament influenced regional stability.
I actually really like DJ Assault - a Detroit a ghetto tech DJ, who's produced good music that's influenced me a bit.
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
I think gaming has influenced popular culture in a huge way. It's worked its way into novels, and blockbuster movies.
People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.
I was heavily influenced by Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz, but I kind of wanted to take it somewhere else.
I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.
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.
In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.
My best writing is not outside of the beat. I'm 99 percent influenced by the beat first, and then the words just flow.
Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal.
I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
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.
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.
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.