#influence

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears. ↗

— Hal Sparks

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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. ↗

— Hal Sparks

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There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football. ↗

— Tim Tebow

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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. ↗

— Dean Inge

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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence. ↗

— Andrew Shue

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I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. ↗

— Ron Perlman

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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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