Heroes Quotes
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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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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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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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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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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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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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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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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There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
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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 admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
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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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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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I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
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Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.
