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I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.
I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
Heroes aren't born, they're cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
When a timid mouse who is a mom needs to be a hero, she does it, because that's what moms do.
A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.
I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.
When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size.
Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.
As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.
We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there's no one like Wonder Woman to do it.
I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's.
I didn't mind going to any length to make people believe that a puny hero had me at his mercy.
It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
Petraeus is the finest general I have ever worked for; Holly Petraeus is a great American hero.
I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine
If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.
I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.