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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence. ↗

— Natalie Portman

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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. ↗

— Anne Rice

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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

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According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas. ↗

— Ian Smith

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