- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hero Quotes
On heroes, idols, and who we choose to look up to.
These quotes look at what it means to have a hero, whether that's a musician admired from the audience or a childhood icon like Mickey Mouse who fits several roles at once. Explore more in Inspiration quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't forget to let your reader feel the emotions of the scene. If you get all tied up with the mechanics of where the hero's hands are and not about how they make the heroine feel, then the scene will read flat.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
We haven't evolved a hero story that's female. We're always trying to fit women's stories into this male structure, which is this rising action, this powerful conflict, and this falling action. And I think a female hero story is not that. It's something else.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I was so compelled by artists whose looks were inseparable from their music. Bjork was my hero.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a hero playing in sports that looked like me.
- Nov 07, 2020
A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
- Nov 07, 2020
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys - which, when you look at me, you realize is completely against my physical characteristics. I should be an action hero. So I don't understand what's going on.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020