As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of.
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer. . . in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.
Kids get influenced by other kids.
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.
I never directly think of certain films. I know I am influenced by all the films I see.
I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.
I used to say that I was making "country music," because it was the quickest, easiest answer. I'm obviously heavily influenced by country music. There was a three-year stint in my life where I listened to nothing else, so, I learned it very well.
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".
I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
Being classically trained gave me the real foundation for music. It's so important in my life. Why was I influenced by all these styles of music? Because it gave me a sense of freedom. It made me feel like I could put my hand in a colored bag and pull out a different colored candy and have fun with it.
I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
I love musicsounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark sounds for sure but I also love delicate sounds, they both connect I think. Discharge back in 1980 was a big explosion in sound for me to hear the anger and the energy, still an influence on me. Miles Davis has been an influence, as much as John Coltrane, Brian Eno, John Hassel. So much around me has influenced me: my everyday life, everything around me, the family, etc. . . . It has an impact.
I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.