The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. URSULA K. LE GUIN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motiv... CULLEN BUNN It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good g... TOM FELTON The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curio... TED DEMME At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much te... KYLE SCHMID Piper wondered if Olympian gods ever blasted their kids with lightning for being evil, or grounded t... RICK RIORDAN Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and dir... CAMPBELL SCOTT I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, on... FREDDY ADU A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad... SONNY LISTON I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain B... SHERRILYN KENYON Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t... RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe... RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died. RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed. RICK RIORDAN To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' ... J. AUGUST RICHARDS Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic ... GEORGE OSBORNE There's no good guys and bad guys. HAL HOLBROOK Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that. RICK RIORDAN You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a pro... TOBIN BELL Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the mos... BILLY ECKSTINE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe; but the good guys have two enemies: The universe and the... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you ?” His hair was grease... RICK RIORDAN Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” ... RICK RIORDAN There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most. CASEY STONER Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of thin... JOHN T. CHAMBERS I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favo... CHRIS CARTER That big hit 'Get Lucky' is a disco song - not only the melody and the whole concept, but we... GIORGIO MORODER The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance f... RON CARLSON We still should have enough time to reach Rome.” Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav... RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas... RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?” Percy wanted to step ... RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ... RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in... RICK RIORDAN In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifi... LIBBA BRAY One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And c... GEORGE LUCAS I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's lik... HARMONY KORINE Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at... PAUL PARK Man to God: "I've let you down so many times." God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I ... THE SKIT GUYS One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get on... RANDY HOUSER We don't have a lot of guys that have been deep in the postseason. (But) Richard is one of those guy... BEN BRAUN I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent ... KURT SUTTER That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people. RICK RIORDAN I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine... RICK RIORDAN The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to hav... RICK RIORDAN [Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope. RICK RIORDAN Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat. RICK RIORDAN Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels. RICK RIORDAN The way that we play, that's a good sign for us. We're going to have seven or eight guys get 15 or m... BARRY GEBHART Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good su... LZ GRANDERSON Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple. RICK RIORDAN Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's mos... NAZANIN BONIADI Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they're hungry. They want it bad. Sam'... LATRELL SPREWELL One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the o... THOMAS SOWELL I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing i... SEAN QUINN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, ... DUNCAN JONES The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never... RICK RIORDAN Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY If the guys are goofing off, Danny is one of the guys to get them straightened back up. JEFF MYERS Swords can’t solve every problem. RICK RIORDAN Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a fa... RICK RIORDAN There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney.... JIM BROWN The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad th... IRIS APFEL Juggling is the word. I'm a bad juggler, and there are often balls dropped. There is no balance.... SONYA WALGER Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians? RICK RIORDAN Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by... RICK RIORDAN I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. MITCH ALBOM I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider! RICK RIORDAN Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She�... RICK RIORDAN What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out s... RICK RIORDAN Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a ... RICK RIORDAN In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' -... JILL SOLOWAY If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER
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I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of... TRACY MORGAN Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts waterin... MORGAN SPURLOCK She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as muc... MORGAN LLYWELYN I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy. MORGAN FREEMAN Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck.... MORGAN FREEMAN Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. W... MORGAN FREEMAN What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what ... EDMUND MORGAN The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, th... EDMUND MORGAN Black history is American history. MORGAN FREEMAN I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. MORGAN FREEMAN Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy ... DANIEL MORGAN I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week. TRACY MORGAN I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really intere... COLIN MORGAN My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very di... MORGAN BRITTANY Hate generalises, love specifies ROBIN MORGAN I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you... MORGAN FREEMAN I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place. TRACY MORGAN The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about ... ROBERT MORGAN We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along. - Ro... MORGAN MATSON My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl... TRACY MORGAN I can always forgive where I understand. JUDE MORGAN I was hoping we'd stretch out the lead a little more, because I knew they were going to come back. T... BRIAN MORGAN We stopped a lot of their easy baskets. We talked at halftime that we were giving up too many (baske... BRIAN MORGAN We talked about taking him (out) after the sixth, decided we'd take him out if he allowed a runner i... BRIAN MORGAN You never want to get swept by your rivals, but at this point in the season, a win against anyone is... BRIAN MORGAN Our kids are tired. They're out having to cut trees and fix fences. You can tell their minds are som... BRADLEY MORGAN