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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
One of the biggest heroes and influences of mine, especially acting and working in comedy, is Steve Coogan.
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.
All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
My heroes - people like Woody Allen - were stand-up comedians. Therefore, I always felt I should give it a go.
Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
They say don't meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met.
I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.
With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
Honoring our nation's heroes and their caregivers is a cause very important to me - especially on Independence Day.
The damaged wealthy hero is actually a hugely common trope in romance, and alpha heroes are very common in romance.
The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Growing up my heroes were American motocross riders. I didn't want to be a drummer; I wanted to be a motocross rider.
When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.
Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
I grew up a wrestling fan, so to be doing what my 'heroes' were doing when I was a kid, it's fun. I have fun out there.
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
I don't accept films just because they have star heroes in lead. I rejected a few big films because I didn't like the story.
We can bring this country together. But we must realize that our heroes in blue are part of the solution and not the problem.
I met the Gallagher brothers, and Noel was quoting my 'Fonejacker' catchphrases. Hearing your heroes quote you is incredible.
I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.