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• I don’t know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn’t just art, its about being a person I’ve always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

  Richard Dreyfuss

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• The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

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• Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.

  Ethel Merman

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• To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

  Simone Weil

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• To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

  Theodore H. White

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• HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

  Zhang Yimou

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• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  Walt Whitman

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• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

  Felix Adler

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  W. H. Auden

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• From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.

  Maxwell Anderson

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• The greatest personalities that ever existed have been those who united human beings and put them on the road toward cooperation and effectiveness and peace. Those whom the world has held highest have helped to unite and not sever interconnectedness. They have not been the destroyers of differences but the harmonizer of differences.

  John Lovejoy Elliott

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• I don’t believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

  Thor Heyerdahl

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• Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

  Will Rogers

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• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• Unhappy the land that needs heroes.

  Bertolt Brecht

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• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  Arthur Ashe

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• The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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