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Nat King Cole was a really big influence. ↗

— Bryan White

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We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question. ↗

— Barry Gibb

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I have more influence now than when I had the power. ↗

— Gough Whitlam

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. ↗

— Saul Williams

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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you? ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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