A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
I get influenced by stuff that isn't even music.
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I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.
Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?" - and whose writings offered novel perspectives for considering that question (much more perspective-offering than rigorous argument!)
People are influenced by what we are, what we radiate. This has greater appeal than what we say.
I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to.
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham.
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man. . . It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer. . . in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob are influenced; it is they who the inspectors cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second hand carriages; no one cares for them or asks about them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.