Quotes About Influence

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

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.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

We all like all of that, from 'Rubber Soul' to 'The White Album' and all of that, but even before, we were into that theatrical element of things. We didn't want to do a 'Sgt. Pepper's' thing.

Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized.

The 'Jonny Quest' theme had a huge influence on me while I was growing up.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

Trump's Fox News fixation was a major theme of his presidency. He hired people from Fox, fired people because of Fox, and gave most of his national TV interviews to Fox. Sometimes it was hard to tell where Trump ended and Fox began.

We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

Milkshake' was my theme song as soon as it came out. I think I was 13. I just love Kelis. Full stop.

But isn't it terrific when you're with someone who can bring out your best self? I think that's the sign of a true friend, when they make you feel better when you're with them than you ever had a chance of feeling without them.