Life Influence Quotes

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

Design has always been a driving force in my life: it's the lens through which I experience the world.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.

How could you not let your life affect your work? That's all it is. Unless you have a very specific, isolated version of what you're doing.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

Our own lives always influence the way we write.

One day, you'll get out of the Marine Corps; you'll put your uniform up, but you'll never not be a Marine.

There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

Every day somebody comes up to me and says, 'That song really helped me through a difficult time,' or 'That's me and my wife's song' or 'This song means something to me because of... ' It's humbling to hear that. You're something special in someone's life, even if it is for three minutes.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

That's the great part about television: It's alive, and it changes and evolves with the way the characters evolve. Stuff that happens to you in your life when you're shooting a TV show, you have to be careful, because it might end up in the show.

My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It's affected every aspect of my life.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.

I have a hard time imagining a life without basketball.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.