With Six You Get Eggroll - Meeting Introductions and Unusual Descriptions
Maxine Scott:
You're a great help to me. What am I supposed to say to this man? "Hi, I'd like you to meet my sister, the girl with the golden arm and her hair in the oven.
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Freedom Writers - Defining Heroism Through Personal Responsibility
Marcus:
I've never had a hero before. But you are my hero.
Miep Gies:
Oh, no. No, no, no, young man, no. I am not a hero. No. I did what I had to do, because it was the right thing to do. That is all.
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Freedom Writers - Ordinary Actions Can Inspire Extraordinary Change
Miep Gies: [after Marcus calls her "his hero"]
Oh no. No, no, young man, no, I am not a hero. No, I did what I had to do because... it was the right thing to do. That is all. Now we are all ordinary people, but even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room, ja? I have read your letters, and your teacher has been telling me many things about your experiences. You are the heroes. You are heroes every day. Your faces are engraved in my heart.
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