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Influence Quotes

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.427

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

"Mystery writer" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.16, Simon and Schuster