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But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

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If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

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When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen in paintings rather than from my own observation...and I started to feel this was a real lack in my work. Everything was too generalised, and not based on real experience. Then in 1975, after having worked for some years in London as a book cover illustrator mainly, I came down to Devon and stayed with some friends up on the moor. In the course of this one weekend, wandering around the moor, finding rivers and ancient woods, I realised that everything that I would ever want to draw was actually here. There was so much richness in the texture and forms of these fantastic trees...and I decided in the course of that weekend to come and live here. I looked at a couple of houses, found one, and made an offer on it, all in that one weekend! ↗

— Alan Lee

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I've had influences from many people including the coaches and players I've worked with. ↗

— Roy Keane

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I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things. ↗

— Chris Tucker

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I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

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I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it. ↗

— Edward Moore

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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

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I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. ↗

— GG Allin

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