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I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?

David Herbert Donald

Gay

Heroes

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Thoughts

Heroes

Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

Laura Dern

Faults

Heroes

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

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

Jeffery Deaver

Heroes

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.