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I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.