Hero Quotes - Page 39

• I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

  Ruth Glick

  Jobs, Best Job, Giving

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• The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey.

  Joseph Campbell

  Journey, Jewels, Goal

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• The world is always waiting for someone to save the day, make things better. We've lost hope in politics, preachers. ... As a child of God, I just believe that Jesus is our hero, he is the one that came to save man's life, to save man's soul, to restore people back to themselves with a love that's real - an unconditional sacrificial love.

  Kirk Franklin

  Jesus, Children, Real

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• I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.

  Bert Jansch

  Girl, Strong, Player

  Interview with Robin Cook, www.furious.com. December 2006.

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• Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I'm ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.

  Dale Watson

  Song, Writing, Fighting

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• I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.

  Francis Dunnery

  Song, Angel, Men

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• I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all adored, like the younger befriends or reaches out to their hero, and for me, whenever you meet some younger person, who has a fire in their gut, a way of being in the world, it excites you.

  Eileen Myles

  Hate, Fire, Mentor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.

  Avery Sunshine

  Mean, Eric, Mines

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Guitar, Musician, Novelists

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• Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

  William Shatner

  Struggle, Needs, Villain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Celine Dion is one of my heroes. The first song I learned was "My Heart Will Go On." And we sang "Because You Loved Me" for my mom which was a huge deal for me.

  Charice Pempengco

  Mom, Song, Heart

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.

  J. J. Johnson

  Together, Bebop, Way

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• Everyone in my family is a hero to me.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  My Family

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• The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Long, Political

  "Molly Ivins: Not. backing. Hillary." by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2006.

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• Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greek, Gentleman, Battle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.376

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• It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

  James Stockdale

  Disaster

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• Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not!

  Randy Orton

  Worst Nightmares, Sick, You Like It

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• I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

  Richard Dawkins

  Irony, Worship, Given

  "Christopher Hitchens: my hero of 2010" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2010.

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• The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Song, Fate, Blow

  Mercedes Lackey (1998). “Oathblood”, p.126, Penguin

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• I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

  Joni Mitchell

  Thinking, Artist, Way

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• The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

  Aristotle

  Destiny, Tragedy, Conflict

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• The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.

  Ann Coulter

  Top Management, Boss, Criminals

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• One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

  Dwight Macdonald

  Demand

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• (Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

  Roger Ebert

  Mistake, Iron, Giving

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.300, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

  Masi Oka

  Drama, Character, Ensemble

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