"It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect."

-- Bonnie Raitt

#People Quotes #Influence Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“My family, they're not really that involved in what I do. Career-wise, they're very supportive. They're involved after the fact. I don't tell them anything usually until I'm finished filming it or mid-way through filming it.”
“The successful are those who have been given opportunities,”
“The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.”
“What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'”
“I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.”
“All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out Â£17 for economical?”

Source : Interview in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003.
“The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.”

Source : Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions
“The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.”

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