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• I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Boston, Berries

  "Chuck D on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Of Course Hip-Hop Belongs". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

  Steven Morrissey

  Voice, Would Be, Wake Up

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• Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

  Greg Bear

  Friendship, Long, Inspire

  "Sci-fi scribes on Ray Bradbury: 'Storyteller, showman and alchemist'" by John Joseph Adams, www.wired.com. June 06, 2012.

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• After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.

  James Iha

  Rocks, Years, People

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• I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

  Jonathan Ames

  Beautiful, Book, Role Models

  "'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Creative, Want, Chance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Shapes, Something New, Ready

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• I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

  Peter Billingsley

  Projects, Producers, Get Involved

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• I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

  Sara Bareilles

  Grateful, Artist, Chance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  People, Stories, Come Up

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• I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

  Wes Borland

  Artist, Trying, Different

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• As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy

  Dancer, Genes, Bigger

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• Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

  Charlie Crist

  Party, Men, Optimism

  Charlie Crist's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

  Artur Davis

  Sweet, Blessed, Dark

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• I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

  Carson Daly

  Love Is, Lasts, Dave

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• What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

  Dave Davies

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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• I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

  James Dashner

  Stories, Way, One Way

  "Meet The Maze Runner Author James Dashner". Interview with Cosmogirl, www.seventeen.com. January 20, 2011.

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• I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

  Katherine Dunham

  Careers, People, Kind

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• There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

  Bruce Feiler

  Stories, Narrative, Reason

  "God and Dad: A Father’s Four Lessons of Faith" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

  Charles de Lint

  Heart, Writing, Thinking

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• Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

  Evel Knievel

  Inspirational, Kids, Saws

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• Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.

  Lesley Garrett

  Sopranos, Andrew

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

  Philip Guston

  Excellence, Looks, Painting

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• I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Country, Teaching, Oath Of Office

  "Tulsi Gabbard, First Hindu In Congress, Uses Bhagavad Gita At Swearing-In" By Jaweed Kaleem, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.

  Dree Hemingway

  Growing Up, Thinking, Doors

  "Dree Hemingway on 'Starlet,' Porn and Her Famous Great-Grandfather, Ernest". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2012.

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