Heroes Quotes
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
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My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.
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And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
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I love working with teachers and principals; they are my heroes. They are very dedicated to children, and it's very impactful.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
