Tv Influence Quotes

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.

Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

The Iranians are very skilled terrorist, and we'd have to expect that they'd hit at us as hard as they could. Especially in Iraq, where they have a great deal of power and influence.

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives.

The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.

Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be massive influences

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the kids around me.

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.