Cassandra Clare Quotes
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
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I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any high degree; only about as much as is used in the lower kinds of poetry.
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What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
