Ed Kowalczyk Quotes

All of my favorite artists who inspired me were never afraid to be uncool and never afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves - no matter how much flak they took for it.

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• The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Me
  • Style

• I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Words
  • Me
  • Inspired

• I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Future

• We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Inspired
  • Matter

• My biggest style inspirations come from the '90s. I'm really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson, and designers like Jeremy Scott. I'm hugely inspired by Club Kids from New York back in the '90s. I'm inspired by the drag queen scene. Combat boots and the torn off jeans and a baggy shirt - I love that look.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Style

• I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Inspired
  • Influence
  • Show

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Song
  • Inspired

• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Real
  • Wife
  • Choices

• How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • You
  • Inspired
  • Just

• I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Inspired

• I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Grew

• There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Up
  • Care
  • Inspired

• Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Inspired
  • Hamlet
  • Captain

• No longer are the days where I just kind of fly under the radar. Everybody's recognizing me. Everybody wants pictures. They feel inspired. It's very cool.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Inspired

• When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beginning
  • Magic
  • Inspired

• The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Nice
  • Inspired

• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Song
  • Cool
  • Guitar

• The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Battle
  • Function
  • Republicans

• Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.'

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Done
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  • Party

• People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• All of my favorite artists who inspired me were never afraid to be uncool and never afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves - no matter how much flak they took for it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Inspired