#roe

Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #heroes #role-models

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#learned #mean #philosophers #should #statesmen

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked. ↗

— Rosanna Arquette

#bathing suit #beach #being #burt #comfortable

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#certain #heroes #i #i believe #measure

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ↗

— John Adams

#birds #children #converse #domestic #heroes

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#about #became #charlie #famous #feeling

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes. ↗

— Paz Vega

#seville

I am Roe. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#i #i am #roe

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#her #i #loved #marilyn #marilyn monroe

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. ↗

— Brad Bird

#certain extent #extent #got #heroes #i