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There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.
Alfred Molina

Great, Actor, Deal

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.
Steve Vai

Living, Start, Talent

Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.
Steve Vai

Someone, Play, Musical

We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.
Steve Vai

Home, Talent, Artists

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
Dido Armstrong

Working, Study, Stuff

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.
Johann Lamont

Equality, Fight, Justice

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
Ernest Newman

Work, Great, Working

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
Alvin Lee

Dad, After, Off

When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.
Cee Lo Green

Help, Stage, Clinton

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.
Joseph Jarman

Music, Contact, Dharma

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.
Clara Hughes

Thought, Eyes, Around

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
Clara Hughes

Small, Learned, Means

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.
Amy Adams

Moment, Acting, Holly

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.
Alma Gluck

Soul, Put, American

I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.
David Nail

Job, Put, Singing

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.
Daphne Zuniga

Music, Movies, Listen

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
Griffin Dunne

Filmmaking, Narrative

I just wanted to be a part of the band. Actually, that's what inspired me.
Jam Master Jay

Wanted, Actually, Band

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Jonathan Mayhew

Down, Here, Public

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.
Kendrick Meek

Hope, Society, Legal

But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody down south, everybody in the West Coast you know what sayin'.
Bubba Sparxxx

Down, Again, Everybody

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
Daryl Hall

Teacher, Mother, Her

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
Kurt Sutter

Movies, Past, Evil

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.
Kurt Sutter

Great, Focus, Writing

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.
Michael Koryta

Music, Work, Home

My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
Mary Gordon

Husband, Young, American

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.
James Rollins

American, Often, While

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.
James Rollins

Often, While, Both

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.
Joel Hodgson

Cool, Thought, American

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.
Chuck Zito

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