'I like movies about real heroes. Because that's what I aspire to be - heroic.'
Does it seem interesting to anyone else that she had an American accent?
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Bookish blogs & sites
- 21st Century Bookshow
- 3000 books
- A Pair of Ragged Claws
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- ABR blog
- Alien Onion
- Bluestalking
- Bookninja
- Bookslut
- City of Tongues
- Elegant Variation
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- Adelaide From Adelaide (New home of ThirdCat)
- Ampersand Duck
- Audrey and the bad apples
- Bland Canyon
- Blogger on the cast-iron balcony
- Blue Milk
- Blurb from the Burbs
- City of Tongues
- Comic Strip Hero
- Diacritic
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- Galaxy
- i don't like it
- In a garden somewhere (formerly the peas with no pod)
- Larvatus Prodeo
- Marrickvillia
- Moment to Moment
- Ms Batville
- Muppinstuff
- Northern Lights
- Notes from Eleanor Bloom
- Orwell drops his aitches
- Pavlov's Cat
- Reasons You Will Hate Me
- Reeling and Writhing
- Sarsaparilla Lite (temporary home of Sarsaparilla)
- Sarsasparilla
- Sorrow at Sills Bend
- Still Life With Cat
- The Banana Lounge
- The half-hearted hack
- The Man at the Pub
- The Rachel Papers (blog by author Rachel Powers)
- The View From Elsewhere
- Whale Sushi
2 comments:
Love to know what her definition of a hero is. Like those in the series of the same name, or perhaps Lance Armstrong (a lot of people admire sportsmen). Personally, I take someone like Aaron Ralston any day. To survive a week in desert without water or food with your arm pinned by a boulder, then cut it off and walk to help - that's heroism.
Me too.
Yes, your example is courageous (though I don't know about heroic - don't have you have to help someone else to be a hero?). But can you aspire to be that? That's an example of doing something courageous under pressure - and you can't aspire to be in that situation, surely. (I'm directing that at my American, not you, btw)
I find the idea of aspiring to be heroic very strange. You can aspire to be courageous, but aspiring to be a hero seems to me to smack of self-importance. It means you aspire to do somethng courageous and then be lionised for it. She's seeing book deals, payments from A Current Affair for her story, etc.
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