Hero Quotes
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Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.
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When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.
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I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.
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When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?
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The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.
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Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He's a role model - because he's a local guy who got out.
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.
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If a guy can play Guitar Hero with me and sit at home and watch the Food Network and read magazines with me, that's good. I don't think there are many guys that's fun for. It's a lot to ask.
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I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun.
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Everyone we meet is a hero waiting to happen. When Jesus saw people, He envisioned their potential. No respecter of persons, He associated with people from all walks of life.
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A working class hero is something to be.
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I think that part of the reason that 'Iron Man' was so successful was that we really chose to break new ground in a new area tonally, cast wise, the way we depict the hero, what his abilities are. It felt fresh in a genre that is beginning to feel stale if it's not done with the proper amount of inspiration and a strong voice or tone.
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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
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It's great to play the hero. You get all the good stuff. You're in it all the way through.
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The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
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I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
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It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
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History is a sly boots, and for a generation of blacks that cannot identify with the frustrations of Jim Crow, and for whites who cannot understand the hard deal that faces working-class blacks, it is difficult to reconcile Hughes's reputation as a poet-hero with his topical verse and uncomplicated prose.
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Yes, I was inspired by Jack London and still love reading his books. Ernie Banks is another hero because I lived in Chicago for two years as a kid, and I loved that he was the Cubs' loyal underdog and one of the first African-Americans to make that breakthrough.
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Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
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You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.
