Quotes About Influence

I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.

It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.

Hillary Clinton trashes the banks every time she opens her mouth, and yet she made $21 million in two years making speeches to those very banks that she trashes every day.

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.

Obviously the original 'Tron' was a very influential movie for its time, so to be a part of the second one is very exciting.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

Hank Williams was one of the greatest writers of all time, and it's very sad that his career lasted for only six years.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

What I admire about Snoop Dogg is his longevity. I mean, he's been around for a long time and I think he's as good as he's ever been.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do.

...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.