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It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.

Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.

You look like a protagonist.

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs.

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

Soon, all the children were chanting it. “No school! No school!

Somehow her hula hoop had cut into the driver’s side door like the vehicle was made of cheese.

Aloha Oukou. It looked like your soul was escaping so I put you in a tree.

Lydia displays her right hand and instantly bathed the room with a blinding light. It lasted only a moment before it drew back into her palm. “I can fix you if you’re ever broken.

I’m afraid they’re not coming.” Abby said fearfully. “Our parents, our teachers – everyone! They’ve disappeared. That’s it. Lights out, Shelly. We’re on our own.

There’s nothing wrong with you at all. Sometimes people say or do things that are mean because there's something the matter with them. With Lydia, it seems there’s always something wrong with her.

Because I am, just as you are you. We don’t always get to pick who we are, Shelly Wynn, but we can choose to celebrate it.