Nelson Searcy Quotes
Perspective is everything. If your “why” is big enough, you can deal with almost any “what.
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I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
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From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
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It is easy to react if everything is going great.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
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There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.
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As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.
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The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.
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Perspective is everything. If your “why” is big enough, you can deal with almost any “what.
