Quotes About Influence

I get commercial acclaim because of critical acclaim and it is a chain reaction.

The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.

Everything is a reaction.

Any reaction is better than none.

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.

Of course, my sister and my dad, I respect as musicians and look up to them, but people kind of forget that they're my family, so my first reaction isn't always, 'Let me see what my dad and Miley think about this record.'

I have this problem that I just like to get a reaction from people.

Try to remember that every action you take in life will have a consequence and a reaction for other people, and that it's the same on social.

It's funny to watch sometimes. You're walking through a crowd of people or whether you're just out there for driver intros, the amount of reaction you get and the people you're affecting is pretty funny.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

It's awesome that my job is to make people have reactions.

I know I create major reactions in people.

So many reactions in our lives are based on what happened to us when we were younger.

We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.

I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm saying?

Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.