#hero

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

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See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

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I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. ↗

— Martha Stewart

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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#falling #falling in love #grew #heroes #i

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it. ↗

— David Alan Grier

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I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

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