Uninfluenced Quotes

It helps to have “has beens” on commissions because they have no political ax to grind.

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

I got my own sound in Atlanta because I don't listen to anybody's music. When you listen to people's music, you start to say stuff they say as an artist because that's what you've been listening to. Me, I don't listen to anybody. I support, but I don't listen, because I don't want to run with someone style. I do my own thing.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

I realized that I've worked quite independent from the fast-changing trends over all these years.

Do you think I really care what Jeff Gordon says?

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment. He cannot be bought; he's not a puppet on a string like many other candidates... who have wealthy donors as their puppet masters.

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

There are a large number of institutions in this country which we should not politicise.

The decision to serve needs to be independent of your politics.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

People gather details and comparisons but it doesn't really bother me or land on me of any sort. I don't know if I was... Maybe I was influenced by them, maybe I wasn't, but I don't know. I was probably influenced by everything I've heard. So it doesn't bother me at all, but it doesn't sway me either.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

I want to work closely with the government but it doesn't mean I become so weak and just toe the government line.

Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.

I'm not reading reviews and critics. I don't care. I guess I'm still a little on my own planet.

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if you're a pro, and you're a reporter, you do it. Whether you agree with the guy or not is just quite incidental. It doesn't count at all, really.

It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply working out my own ideas in my own way.