I don’t really care who gets their inspiration from where, it’s the end results that count.
I first conceived of my far-future setting ‘Punktown’ in 1980, and though it contains ‘punk’ in its name, the term ‘cyberpunk’ hadn’t been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.
There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire – Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.
You know that the world is a better place when people can come up to a severely disabled person and say: ‘Well done. You are an inspiration.’
You’re always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you’re feeling, things that you’ve felt. It’s kind of impossible not to unless you’re writing a song and there’s an exact scenario that you’re trying to write a song for.
An inspiration – a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought – could alone give health to the heart.
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.
I don’t really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don’t write any of his raps down. Common. It’s easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I’ll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.
When you’re in front of the camera, you have to try to create different emotions because even the person making pictures of you needs inspiration. To be ‘you’ means nothing – you can be so many yous.
Drake has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and same with Lil Wayne.
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It’s working with people. It’s a lot more fun.
Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
All the truly great stand-ups say, ‘I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I’m doing my work.’ To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.
An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
In life, you have to go through something to get to something. From that, the inspiration comes having something of substance to talk about; otherwise you’re just considered to be fluff.
I’ve met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she’s an inspiration for me in television.
Every writer has their rituals. For me, it’s morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration.
Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
Inspiration strikes at very funny times.
One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases – any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.
You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I’m writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.
Galley Molina’s a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it’s called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.
I want to be an inspiration to lots and lots of children.
My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don’t want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.
I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one’s ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.
I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child.
Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.
For the last decade, I’ve worked as a federal judge in a court that spans six Western states, serving about 20 percent of the continental United States and about 18 million people. The men and women I’ve worked with at every level in our circuit are an inspiration to me.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
I’d never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
I’ve seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
For me genius is ‘1% inspiration and 99% procrastination.’
I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There’s no better feeling. It’s beauteous. But it’s always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
I’ve always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.
I don’t really listen to bassists – not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.
The words that I’m most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that’s the same with music, really. If you’re doing an album, there’s ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times – it’s difficult.
Muse. Mu-se. It’s a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don’t think it’s necessarily a man ‘taking’ from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.
Inspiration is the key to everything.
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.
I’m hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That’s why I tell people you’ve got to watch ‘The Real.’ We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it.
Part of Michael’s uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
It’s true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is… songs comes through you.
There’s no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything – from a wig I’ve seen to an expression I’ve heard someone use.
My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.
You can find inspiration when you’re not even looking for it.
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.
