Quotes About Influence

Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.

If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.

I know when I was 9 and 10, I was watching films way beyond that age group, and it's what kids aspire to.

I would hope to make a record that interacts with culture in a macro sense. That is something to aspire to.

MS Dhoni is an asset in any team he plays for.

I always go into a game trying to get an assist and trying to get a goal, I want to influence games.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with the girl characters.

Grime don't mean nothing, we never called it grime. It's just a word someone associated with us. I wouldn't say all my music's grimy.

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

People are always going to assume I got my roles because of my father. There's not much I can do about that. He and I talk about the business sometimes, but he's my dad.

My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.

Even in Australia, where I've had success, I never assumed that people would follow me because of who I am.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

We know that as a Christian athlete, people are watching, and so we want to be the best example we can be and show that we are different - that Christ has changed our lives.

Athletes have all the influence in the world. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say.

I see a lot of athletes that don't really use social media, or they're saying the same stuff. I kind of wanted to change the game.

Professional athletes, like it or not, have a responsibility to the kids of America.

I got my own sound in Atlanta because I don't listen to anybody's music. When you listen to people's music, you start to say stuff they say as an artist because that's what you've been listening to. Me, I don't listen to anybody. I support, but I don't listen, because I don't want to run with someone style. I do my own thing.

Any piece of music or album or anything - I don't care what genre - in the States, a piece of it came through Atlanta somehow.

For me and for Atletico, it's the same: Simeone is everything.

You have to create your own atmosphere.