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Quotes About Influence

There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.
~ Daniel Sunjata
I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.
~ Darrell Hammond
I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.
~ David Bowie
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
~ David Frum
Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.
~ David Galenson
Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to bring order and fruitfulness into the world.
~ David Kim
I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.
~ David Oyelowo
As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.
~ David Remnick
We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.
~ Dean Alford
My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.
~ Dean Spade
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
~ Dermot Mulroney
When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.
~ Derrick Jensen
I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.
~ Devon Sawa
I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'
~ Dolly Parton
The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.
~ Don Cupitt
The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.
~ Donna Tartt
You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.
~ Dyllan McGee
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.
~ Unknown
I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.
~ Edward Hirsch
Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.
~ Elizabeth Reaser
The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
~ Elliott Carter
I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.
~ Eric Bana