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I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.