"We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero/heroine of his/her own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters"

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Source : Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Maeve Binchy

#Hero Quotes #Believe Quotes #Character Quotes

“My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy.”

Source : "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.
“I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”

Source : 'Invictus. In Memoriam R.T.H.B.' (1888)
“Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.”
“The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.”
“Nothing grows well without space and air.”

Source : Patricia Monaghan (1999). “The Office Oracle: Wisdom at Work”, Llewellyn Worldwide Limited
“Misery is the River of the World”
“So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?”
“I think when Fox News goes to the Megyn Kellys, the Bret Baiers, and people who don't have much experience who haven't covered campaigns, the result is sometimes you have these inane questions that come out and, frankly, waste everybody's time.”

Source : "David Shuster Slams Fox News Moderators At GOP Debate" by Katherine Fung, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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