Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.
Uzodinma Iweala
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Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
Maurice Strong
LeaderGreatEnvironmentalInfluence
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
Poppy Z. Brite
InfluenceRoadLearnLostBeenRead
With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many other factors influence it. It's just a whole different kind of storytelling.
Sarah Pinborough
InfluenceKindMatterStorytelling
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.
Loretta Lynch
PowerJusticeInfluenceCorruptHe
The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.
Hjalmar Schacht
TimeInfluenceRealizeMustJews
Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
Tatum O'Neal
InfluenceYouThingsGetSloppy
The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.
Matt Letscher
GoodLawInfluenceSpecialThrough
In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.
Pete Rozelle
InfluenceClubBecauseWorkingFact
In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change public policy in ways that women with less power don't have access to.
Rebecca Traister
ChangeWomenPowerWindInfluence
Public influence is the real government of the world.
Josiah Warren
GovernmentInfluenceWorldReal
In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can - and have, in some cases - been able to educate and influence people.
Howard Schultz
RespectCoffeePeopleInfluenceBeen
I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
Sam Brownback
GoodInfluenceProcessHeavenI Can
Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.
Jeff Nichols
MeInfluenceThinkEarlyKindStuff
We've seen too often what happens when wealthy and powerful industries gain excessive influence over the agencies that regulate them. The capture of the Minerals Management Service at the Department of Interior contributed to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Sheldon Whitehouse
ServiceInfluenceManagementPowerful
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.
Paul Muldoon
GoodInfluencePlaceHandLevel
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
Josiah Strong
LifePowerSpiritualInfluenceBody
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.
Henry Giroux
PowerInfluenceCelebrateMedia
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. Hinton
WorkGoodInfluenceYouTryStuff
I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.
Michael Graves
TimeSchoolInfluenceYouFurniture
I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure.
Sebastian Coe
GoodMotherTimeMeInfluenceCoach
Somebody we never talk about is Stephanie McMahon. She is such a huge power influence in our company. She is always pushing us to go the limit, and she doesn't take much credit for what she's done.
Nia Jax
PowerInfluenceCreditGoDoneTalk
When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.
Josh Fox
GovernmentInfluenceYouNoiseBig
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
Gilbert Parker
HabitInfluenceLike
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