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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody. TED RALL
In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on c... DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I'm really influenced by so many different things.
ALEX WINTER
I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by vide... MARIE LU
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. JAMES LOVELOCK
If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jac... IAN MCKELLEN I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a...
RODRIGO SANTORO Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of...
ALBERTO GONZALES
I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work. ERIC BOGOSIAN I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually...
MARGUERITE YOUNG I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm o...
ROBERT CRAIS
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and a... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad...
DANIEL OKRENT I'm influenced by all types of music.
FLO RIDA
I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a belie...
MANTI TE'O I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not t...
TAKESHI KITANO I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; thin...
PENELOPE LIVELY I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.
TRACY POLLAN I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.
JAMIE DORNAN
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overvie... RON PERLMAN I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challeng...
TIM CROUCH I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw...
BEBE NEUWIRTH I didn't particularly appreciate it. Not being aware of it, I didn't think about it one way or the o...
CRAIG MORTON I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a goo...
STELLAN SKARSGARD
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no... ANNE RICE I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's ...
FEDE ALVAREZ
I'm a believer in karma, and I'm also a believer that things happen for a reason. BILL GOLDBERG
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable th... JIM HARRISON
I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything. BIG BOI
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I do... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stu...
DAN CHAON
I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-p... LUCY WALKER
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to... HOWARD BARKER I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor o...
TOM GLAZER In the end, what matters is this: I survived.
GAIL HONEYMAN
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c... JACK VANCE I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illu...
DAN DECARLO
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. JACKSON POLLOCK Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal...
ADAM MANSBACH
I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream. RALPH LAUREN I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved...
ATTICUS ROSS The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I...
DICK CAVETT ''The good things are often unnoticed,,But the bad things are always remembered.
TANICA S HALL I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me unt...
JENNY MCCARTHY
I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. T... PAULA HAWKINS I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
JACK PRELUTSKY I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.
BILLY SHERWOOD I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to...
IMELDA MAY
I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die ... BRIE LARSON
I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but ... PADMA LAKSHMI
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who... CHARLAINE HARRIS
My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware th... RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
I'm not so in a rush to direct just anything because I'm lucky that I can make a living so f... STEVE BUSCEMI Sometimes when I'm nervous, that's when the most interesting things happen.
CHELSEA PERETTI I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY
In the case of the FBI, I revealed that William Sessions, the FBI director, had been engaging in abu... RONALD KESSLER Typically, (hunters) walk abreast, have a zone of fire they're aware of, but at any one moment, thin...
BILL BALDA Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn't ...
TERESA MEDEIROS
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a b... JOHN CARPENTER I'm a believer in trusting the director.
B. J. NOVAK In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I wa...
GEORGE STEVENS, JR.
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced ... LAURA MARLING
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in th... BENJAMIN F. WADE
When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-kno... CRAIG BROWN I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
TED KOTCHEFF
I think he (director, Peter Jackson) was originally going to have Kong kill Lumpy. Instead he gave m... ANDY SERKIS
But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people wh... TED RALL Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'...
JONATHAN PRYCE I don't want to be submerged by depression.
INGRID BETANCOURT
No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into... DYLAN THOMAS
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. WALT DISNEY My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don...
JONATHAN LETHEM
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consc... CHUCK PALAHNIUK
I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one ... DAVID OYELOWO
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ... TANITH LEE
I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less governmen... CLINT EASTWOOD I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status...
CHRIS OFILI
I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal ... RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.
EMILY BROWNING Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a ga...
BEN FELDMAN
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'... GUY PEARCE
If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that fil... RIDLEY SCOTT I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get m...
MACKENZIE DAVIS
Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing... SCOTT WOLF
I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak. PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to imp...
DANIEL NESTOR
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I&... MARTIN SCORSESE When I got the phone call that I was told I was Peter Pan, I freaked out, because I was like, 'W...
LEVI MILLER
Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on... JEREMY IRONS I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can su...
GARTH ENNIS
I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not ... PENN JILLETTE
Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's... DYLAN MORAN I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
RUPERT SANDERS Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear...
ROBERT CONRAD I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
TED DEMME I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off w...
DARON MALAKIAN To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but...
CHARLES POLLOCK I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collar...
JOAN CAULFIELD
Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh. 
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. 
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. 
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin... 
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive... 
There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce... 
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa... 
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join... 
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. 
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. 
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. 
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w... 
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. 
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k... 
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. 
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. 
Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m... 
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. 
Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana... 
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go... 
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. 
There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job. 
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t... 
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo. 
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati... 
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho... 
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w... 
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs... 
The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin... 
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ... 
I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ... 
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin... 
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir... 
It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th... 
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t... 
Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot. 
Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love. 
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow... 
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. 
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o... 
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages... 
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine... 
Two halves have little choice but to join;
Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ... 
Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr... 
Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so... 
Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas. 
Twisting lemons into lemonade. 
We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w... 
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th... 
There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to... 
We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr... 
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y... 
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la... 
Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek... 
The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th... 
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being... 
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ... 
Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness. 
Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite. 
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e... 
Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan. 
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't. 
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. 
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy. 
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ... 
As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the... 
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up... 
Common Sense is in medicine the master workman. 
If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same. 
Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t... 
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. 
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s... 
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. 
Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t... 
I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. 
So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand. 