Quotes About Influence

Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.

I think I scare people. I really have to watch myself.

Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.

Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?

No matter how much control you have or how much confidence, it's always in someone else's hands, all the time. That's the scariest thing about this industry. It's so political.

If I want to tell a story to 10 people, I don't need a star. If I want to tell it to 10,000 people, the best case scenario is you get an actor and a star.

I like being behind the scene.

Nobody knows what goes on behind the scenes with a YouTuber.

I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.

I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.

It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.

Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.

Inzaghi was one that I really liked to watch because he was completely different to how I played, but he gave me something I didn't have and actually helped me out a lot. Probably a lot of the goals I score now have come from him.

I didn't listen to any of my dad's scores.

I listen to a lot of music from outside, lot of background scores.

Scores of little girls are going to run into school the following day and say, 'Did you see Fran Kirby last night?' That for me is as important as winning the game.

Scoring first changes everything. It makes everything easier for us.

There's more to Gareth's game than scoring goals, he's brought a lot to the changing room.

When it comes to '90s R&B, I grew up on a lot of Aaliyah and Destiny's Child, Missy Elliott, Usher, Jill Scott. Whatever my mom was playing in the house is what I was listening to.

Stuart Scott was a hero.

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.

Scott Rolen is a guy I used to watch a lot.