#hero

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#easier #generally #good #heroes #novelists

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left. ↗

— Michael Medved

#hero #hollywood #industry #left #michael

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. ↗

— Washington Irving

#his #idol #our #out #pushes

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#bob #bob dylan #cohen #dylan #friends

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#ball player #basketball #basketball player #car #car accident

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#because #been #female #men #ready

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me. ↗

— Derek Jeter

#future #hero #lie #me #stadium

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#heroes #households #made #nation

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#hero #heroine #high #into #involves

People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper. ↗

— January Jones

#been #changed #could #i #name