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#influence

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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.


J. M. Coetzee


#case #comes #culture #imitation #immediately

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.


Franz Boas


#considered #contact #furthermore #history #influence

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.


Franz Boas


#allowing #ceremonial #emotional #father #freedom

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.


Jacques Ellul


#constant #continuous #create #creates #environment

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.


Kim Kardashian


#armenia #armenian #celebrating #hearing #holidays

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.


Garth Ennis


#allow #case #characters #childhood #comics

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.


Poppy Z. Brite


#been #convinced #crushed #france #had

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.


Arthur Koestler


#courage #fears #influenced #never #your

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.


Dave Brubeck


#either #i #in print #influenced #me

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.


Geezer Butler


#bruce #definitely #guitar #i #influence






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