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Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition. -- Pauline Kael
But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes. -- David Baldacci
I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them. -- Laura Dern
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. -- Norman Mailer
Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail. -- Brendan Gleeson
The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them. -- Maurice Jarre
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems. -- Tariq Ramadan
At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention. -- Julia Bacha
I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist. -- David McCullough
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...) -- Alan Lee
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be -- Hjalmar Branting
I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. -- Miriam Toews
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. -- Philip Pullman
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. -- Leslie Fiedler
Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs. -- Thalia Zedek
I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently. -- Jesse McCartney
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...) -- Charles Stross
I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much. -- Hugh Laurie
When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood. -- Suzanne La Follette
I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood. -- Alasdair MacIntyre
When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard. -- Ian Fleming
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. -- Haruki Murakami
You don't need to like your protagonists. -- Anson Mount
In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays. -- Diablo Cody
That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles. -- Jon Heder
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them. -- Jonathan Stroud
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be. -- Hjalmar Branting
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family. -- John Banville
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. -- Sandra Cisneros
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger. -- Nelson DeMille
Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible. -- Ron Fournier
Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists. -- Mariella Frostrup
Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them. -- Neve McIntosh
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul. -- Orhan Pamuk
While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories. -- Lynda Barry
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines. -- Cassandra Clare
The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands. -- Laura Chinchilla
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too. -- Mark Lawrence
Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest. -- Bipasha Basu
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of. -- Walter Kirn
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We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators. -- Matt Walsh
Join hands with other protagonists of love and peace and become a love commander. -- Pooja Ruprell
My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen. -- Harold Brodkey
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education -- George Gilder
We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences. -- Shin Kyung-sook
Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists? -- Pete Gill
I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about. -- Jack Higgins
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family. -- John Banville
It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season. -- Tony Goldwyn
I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it. -- Leni Zumas
I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes. -- Karen Russell
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind. -- Edith Hamilton
I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender. -- Vivek Shraya
'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible. -- Ron Fournier
I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center. -- Linda Woolverton
I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me. -- Elizabeth Banks
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers. -- Charles de Lint
I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency. -- Robert Paul Weston
Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before. -- Paul Schrader
Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective. -- Tom Robbins

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