#influenced

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

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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

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. ↗

— Albert Claude

#appreciation #case #death #experienced #familiarity

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. ↗

— Edgard Varese

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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. ↗

— Tom Ford

#city #country #escape #film #get

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#fifties #i #i love #influenced #jazz

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character. ↗

— Bill Frist

#african americans #banking #blood #character #contributions

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#because #being #canadian #food #french

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#cat #cat stevens #collection #dad #everyone

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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