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I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].
If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.
You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet," I said.
George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.
I've begun my career working with older heroes. The people I had been fan of, I now work with them. It's a great opportunity for me.
My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals
Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.
Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?
We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies.
I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment; that's all it is.
There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.
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.
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.
I believe that every single person attached to a film is a character and nothing more. I don't categorize them as hero, heroine, etc.
I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.
My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done
To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.