Top 100 Most Influential People in the World [PHOTOS]: Jennifer Lawrence, Lena Dunham, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kate Middleton Make TIME Magazine List

Time magazine released its 100 Most Influential People in the World today and the list includes Jay-Z, Jennifer Lawrence, Lena Dunham, Beyonce, Jimmy Fallon and Kate Middleton, to name a few. This year, for the first time in the magazine's special issue's history, there will be seven different covers on newsstands. Jay-Z and Jennifer Lawrence (among others) have their own covers.

As is tradition with the magazine's special issue, a person (somewhat) close to the chosen influencer writes a brief article about their friend and subject. This allows for a candid view of the celebrity, athlete, politician, or whoever the person happens to be.

Jodie Foster wrote about the Academy Award winner, Jennifer Lawrence:

"You'll remember where you were when you first felt it, how you were stuck to one spot like a small animal considering its end. The Jennifer Lawrence Stare. It cuts a searing swath in your gut. A reckoning. I remember going to the cutting rooms of Winter's Bone. I thought, Sure, this girl can act. But, man, this girl can also just be. All of those painful secrets in her face, the feeling that there's some terrible past that's left impossibly angled bone and weariness in its wake. She's worn from the pain of living - something none of her characters would ever have the energy to articulate. It's just part of her, like skin and muscle. The good news is that Jen, her good-humored, ballsy, free-spirited alter ego with the husky voice and a propensity for junk food ... Jen, the spritely tomboy from Kentucky - that Jen's got it together. A hoot. A gem. A gem with a killer stare."

Claire Danes wrote about "Girls" creator and Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham:

Lena's power lies largely in her self-awareness and wit. Like all great comics, she has a joke ready to deflect any jeer. Hannah's pathetic declaration that she could at least be "a voice of a generation" invites and thwarts many a poisoned arrow. Lena's true power, though, lies in her transparency. She is unflinchingly, unnervingly honest. She exposes, beneath all that bare skin, a multitude of shortcomings: acute self-involvement, obsessive-compulsive behavior, overeating, oversharing. Hannah is as vivid and raw a portrait as we have seen - nails bitten to the nub - and despite her glaring faults, we ravenously embrace her. Lena's unique lack of vanity or shame allows us to consider that we may also be able to accept and express ourselves fully. This is not only impressive, it's important. Because it turns out that girls don't just want to have fun. They also want to be known for who they really are.

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