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The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.
The script of 'Shaapit' was such that the leading man couldn't be shown indulging into anything heroic.
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.
I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.
I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.
The Ultimate Warrior was explosive, confident, heroic, and ready to get into battle. He was a character who had his own set of rules.
The men and women that I've worked with on the police force are some of the most honest, heroic, and pure human beings I've ever met.
I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to conquer the world, who tried to exterminate people.
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.