Inspired Quotes
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The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.
Jerome Lawrence
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I'm someone who is inspired by people who've spoken out about different racial and gender issues.
Amandla Stenberg
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Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Cornelia Funke
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Of course designers inspired me, but I was more inspired by everyday people. People that I see walking down the street.
Zendaya
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I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.
Erykah Badu
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The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.
M.I.A.
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Look at Daft Punk and Kanye West. The song 'Stronger' was inspired by a Daft tune. Once the hip-hop scene opens up to all the great music that came out of dance, it will continue to spread to the more mainstream audience.
Little Louie Vega
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Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
Alain de Botton
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Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music.
Bishop Briggs
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I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.
Nelly
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The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
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I can't just close myself off to the world, because then I won't be inspired anymore. I won't be able to talk about nothing.
Roddy Ricch
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I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.
Fauja Singh
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Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
Francis Bacon
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Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.
Chuck Zito
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'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.
Eli Roth
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I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the way for this more egalitarian society we live in, how critical it is to use our vote and to be counted.
Sarah Gavron
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When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.
Aly Raisman
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
Buffalo Bill
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I'm really inspired by my friends. I'm psyched to ride with them, usually, and they're really fun to hang out with.
Red Gerard
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The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.
Lisa Tuttle
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The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.
Alicia Keys
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Climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life, and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster.
Andy Serkis
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Quoyle, who spoke little himself, inspired talkers. His only skill in the game of life
Annie Proulx