#influenced

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

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Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste. ↗

— Buddy Rich

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Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work. ↗

— Cynthia Rowley

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I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

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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. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

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My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

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I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre. ↗

— Howard Barker

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