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So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
Blake Lively
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That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers.
Sarah MacLean
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To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.
Pierfrancesco Favino
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Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days.


Luciano Vincenzoni
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When I finished 'Cocktail,' it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica's mindspace, behaviour, and zone. I had to reconnect with who I am. It is a similar story with 'Bajirao Mastani.' Some films demand that.
Deepika Padukone
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I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
Damian Loeb
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Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.
Rick Riordan
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Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.


Marcia Wallace
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The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in, and the story works the same. For me, that's broken. I have to write a story that no one else but Aquaman or Shazam can be in, and as soon as you pull that character out and out someone else in, it doesn't work.
Geoff Johns
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People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'
Alan Moore
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I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so I'd love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
David Christian
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Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
Charles Wolfe
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You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
Lowell Bergman
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.


Sally Field
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It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.


Joseph Jarman
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I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.


Dan Gertler
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It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.


Wes Borland
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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.
Harold E. Varmus
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