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• In terms of Saving Face, I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn’t let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Justice, Survivor, Stories

  "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.

  Lauren Potter

  Thinking, People, Be Inspired

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• My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.

  Dylan Lauren

  Girl, Names, Parent

  "Dylan Lauren: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me". www.usmagazine.com. May 01, 2013.

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• Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

  Dylan Lauren

  Dad, Clothes, Design

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• The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

  Monica Potter

  Father, Real, Heart

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• Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

  Aleksa Palladino

  New York, Simple, Thinking

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• I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

  Billy Preston

  Mom, Home, Player

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• The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Home, Who I Am, Theater

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

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• As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

  Kelly Reilly

  Character, Interesting, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.

  Aly Raisman

  Girl, Usa, Goal

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• When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

  Aly Raisman

  Team, Gymnastics, Mind

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

  James Rollins

  Inspiration, Reading, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.

  Mary Roach

  Writing, Australia, Doe

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  Otis Rush

  Guitar, Play, Water

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• I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.

  Ali Smith

  Blessed, Good Friend, Two

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• I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

  Fred Seibert

  Heart, Dark, Imagination

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• Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.

  Alan Sugar

  Reality, Thinking, Culture

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• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Terrified

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• I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

  Jessica Lynch

  Troops, Stories, Said

  Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

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• I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Writing, People, Belief

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.294, Scholastic Inc.

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• A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

  Stan Sakai

  Play, Stories, Done

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• Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Brilliant, Wonderful, Keynes

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• A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

  Keith Urban

  Song, Good Life, Life Changing

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• I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

  Kate Voegele

  Song, Art, Kings

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• If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

  Alexander Wang

  Pieces, Audience, Realising

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