Peter Coyote Quotes
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
Ferdinand Marcos -
Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
Halima Aden -
For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
J. August Richards -
I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
Illeana Douglas -
Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
Larry Wilmore
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
Orlando Bloom -
I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
Quentin Tarantino -
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
Barry Eisler -
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
Wayne Newton
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
J. August Richards -
I grew up on WWE. Eddie Guerrero is my everything. He's my hero, as are Shawn Michaels and Tiger Mask. I tried to model myself after them.
T. J. Perkins -
The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
Dan Rosensweig -
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh -
'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.
R. Kelly -
When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.
Patrick Collison
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Jawaharlal Nehru -
That transcends everything - skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer.
Dean Devlin -
I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.
Josh Gad -
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.
John Carpenter -
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
Peter Coyote